This talk features discusses the consequences of 9/11 as the trigger that turned security into a priority paradigm in both international relations and domestic policies. Dr. Onder Ozkalipci, Dr. Carla Ferstman and Dr. Lutz Oette will against this background be discussing challenges to the absolute prohibition of torture, the importance of the documentation of torture and the struggle against torture in Turkey, and experiences in the litigation of torture cases, drawing on their extensive work in the field. Dr. Ozkalipci is a medical expert and veteran human rights defenders who has treated hundreds of victims of torture.Dr. Ferstman is the director of REDRESS, an international human rights organisation seeking justice for torture survivors, which has been instrumental in promoting the right to reparation for torture survivors and in litigating torture cases before national, regional and international courts and bodies. Dr. Oette is a senior lecturer in law at SOAS , University of London, who has worked in the field of, and published widely on, the prohibition of torture.