for instance, domestic violence is huge, and i believe it's bigger than in any modern demock rahsy in the world. if you added up all the women who have been murdered by their house bands or boyfriends -- husbands or boyfriend since 9/11 and add up the americans killed in 9/11, many more women have been murdered by their husband and boyfriend than that figure. >> violence against women is cross-cultural and is at staggering levels. adults worldwide strangled or aborted 150 million infant girls or females because they wanted a boy. why is violence against women, cross-cultural, if you are saying it doesn't have a biological root, why does it seem to be everywhere? >> first of all, it's not absolutely everywhere, there are some cultures that we see and we are coming out of it in various ways. patriarchy is a political system, like colonialism was a political system. that was everywhere too. racism - you know, the just ifghts for the colon -- justification for the colonisation for africa and northern americans was profound racism that people could not adapt to the future, you were almost

even well of developed demack sis why -- demock rahsies have issues. >> what are states required to do if instances of torture are found? >> well, there are several different obligations. the first is to investigate, prosecute and punish every episode of torture, even if it's isolated. that means disclosing the truth about it. the second major obligation is to prevent the use of any evidence obtained under torture in any proceeding. that is, you know, violated not only because judges and prosecutors refuse to believe that torture has hopped, or look the other way when it has happened, and admit the evidence that is obtained. but governments use the evidence in other form, not in criminal proceedings, but other forms like in intelligence operations or to decide issues of cop rags with -- cooperation with intelligence bodies of other states. a third is to offer reparations and rehabilitation services of torture. this is not observed in practice. because governments don't identify the victims, and then they pretend that there's no one to offer reparations. i would say that states have an