Torture & Prevention
Chile: National Human Rights Institution
Costa Rica: Defensoría de los Habitantes
Official Documents:
Defensoría de los Habitantes, National Preventive Mechanism 2011 Annual Report (San Jose: DHR, 2012)
El Salvador: Procuraduría para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos
Peru: Defensoría del Pueblo
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)
