What we're doing now

In the cases of four men, Abu Omar, Khaled al Maqtari, Khaled el Masri and Binyam Mohamed CIA agents used Shannon Airport as a launching pad for rendition operations.

Since the fall of the Taleban in 2001 there has been some progress in respect for human rights, particularly women’s rights.

A number of European countries are failing to protect people from torture. They are sending, or trying to send, people to countries where they are at risk of being tortured, depending on unreliable, unenforceable diplomatic assurances that these people will not be harmed.