Press Release
Publication of the proceedings of the Conference on “new
partnerships for torture prevention in Europe”
Strasbourg, 19 July 2010 - The Council of Europe’s Committee for the
Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has
published today the proceedings of the “Conference on new partnerships for
torture prevention in Europe”.
The aim of this conference was to examine how
existing national, European and universal monitoring bodies can best complement
each other in the fight against torture and other forms of ill-treatment in
places of detention in Europe today.
Thematic panels dealt with the following
three topics:
- Promoting the sharing of information between the preventive
bodies
- Facilitating the coherence of standards
- Ensuring the effective
implementation of the recommendations of the preventive bodies
The proceedings
include the speeches given during these panels, as well as the summary of the
debates made by the rapporteurs. They also include the opening speeches given by
Maud de Boer-Buquicchio (Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe),
Mauro Palma (President of the CPT), Victor Rodriguez Rescia (Chairperson of the
UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture) and Thomas Hammarberg (Council of
Europe Commissioner for Human Rights), as well as the summing up of the
conference discussions by Manfred Nowak (UN Special Rapporteur on Torture).
The
conference was held on 6 November 2009 in Strasbourg and was organised by the CPT and the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT), a non-governmental
organisation based in Geneva.
The proceedings are available in PDF format at:
http://www.cpt.coe.int/en/documents/cpt-apt-proceedings.pdf
