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Torture & Prevention
Synopsis
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).
News
- NPM advisory visit to Honduras
- Operation against the Chilean Institute for Human Rights
- Annual Report of the Rio de Janeiro Sub-National Preventive Mechanism to Combat Torture exposes overflowing prison system
- IACHR Welcomes Law Creating the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Argentina
- Uruguay is advancing in the fight against torture and cruel treatment, but much remains to be done (in Spanish)
Links
- Association for the Prevention of Torture (Asociación para la Prevención de la Tortura)
- CENDEP: Prevention of Torture
- FLACSO Mexico: Democracia y Derechos Humanos
- Iberoamerican Federation of Ombudsmen (Federación Iberoamericana de Ombudsman)
- International Coordinating Committee of NHRIs (Comité Coordinador Internacional de las INDDHH)
- Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Oficina del Alto Comisionado para los derechos humanos)
Par Engstrom, Lecturer in Human Rights
(UCL Institute of the Americas)
Thomas Pegram, Assistant Professor in Political Science
(Trinity College Dublin)