Torture & Prevention
On 14 and 15 May 2012 the Mental Disability Advocacy Center and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee co-organised a conference in Budapest to strengthen efforts to prevent torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in places of deprivation of liberty in Hungary. Read more here.
The purpose of this research project, which began in August 2011, is to strengthen the capacity of NHRIs in Latin America -Defensorías del Pueblo, Procuradurías y Comisiones de los Derechos Humanos – to engage with the Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council to promote State implementation of international torture prevention standards (CAT and OP-CAT).
Par Engstrom, Lecturer in Human Rights
(UCL Institute of the Americas)
Thomas Pegram, Assistant Professor in Political Science
(Trinity College Dublin)
