{"id":41020,"date":"2021-10-11T10:29:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T17:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41020"},"modified":"2021-10-11T16:29:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T23:29:52","slug":"the-election-of-todd-buchwald-to-the-un-committee-against-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41020","title":{"rendered":"The Election of Todd Buchwald to the UN Committee Against Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>10\/11\/2021 05:47 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>I would like to congratulate\u00a0Todd Buchwald\u00a0on his election\u00a0to serve\u00a0as an independent expert on the UN Committee Against Torture\u00a0for the\u00a02022-2025\u00a0term.\u202f\u00a0Advancing human rights and rule of law through multilateral re-engagement is a top priority for the United States, and in our pursuit of those ideals at home and around the world, we were proud to nominate Professor Buchwald.\u00a0\u00a0The Committee\u00a0Against Torture\u00a0is an important UN platform for addressing torture\u00a0and is charged with\u00a0the critical work of monitoring 171 States parties\u2019 compliance with their treaty obligations under the Convention Against Torture.\u202f\u00a0The United States takes\u00a0seriously\u00a0its\u00a0<wbr><\/wbr>obligations\u00a0as\u00a0a State Party to this\u00a0treaty\u00a0and submitted\u00a0its\u00a0sixth\u00a0periodic\u00a0<wbr><\/wbr>report to the Committee\u00a0on September 24.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Buchwald is a distinguished scholar, lecturer, and professor of international law\u00a0who\u00a0previously served as the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large\u202ffor\u00a0Global Criminal Justice with a focus on\u00a0justice and\u00a0accountability for atrocities.\u00a0\u00a0This followed an acclaimed legal career with over 30 years in government and private practice, including as\u00a0Assistant Legal Adviser\u00a0of the State Department\u00a0with a focus on\u00a0United Nations\u00a0affairs and as an Attorney in the Office of White House Counsel.\u202f\u00a0I am confident he\u00a0will continue to bring the important perspective of American jurisprudence towards the goal of preventing\u00a0torture and other cruel, inhuman, or\u00a0degrading treatment or punishment internationally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/11\/2021 05:47 PM EDT &nbsp; Antony&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41021,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41020\/revisions\/41021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}