The United Nations Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT) plans to go to Mexico within the first half of 2025, in accordance with its work plan introduced yesterday, which incorporates journey to different nations reminiscent of Afghanistan, Burundi and France.
This physique of the UN human rights system has already visited Mexico in 2008 and 2016. It’s made up of 25 members who’re impartial specialists from totally different components of the world, and has the mandate to journey to the States which have ratified the Optionally available Protocol to the Conference towards Torture, in addition to to assist nations stop this scourge.
The Subcommittee communicates its observations and proposals to States by way of confidential studies, which it encourages nations to make public.
The SPT additionally confirmed upcoming visits to Bolivia, Nigeria, Greece and the Democratic Republic of the Congo within the second half of 2024, along with these already carried out in Gabon, Honduras, Albania and Mongolia.
Below the Optionally available Protocol, the SPT is remitted to evaluate the situations of individuals disadvantaged of their liberty by visiting varied settings, together with prisons, police stations, psychiatric hospitals, closed refugee camps and immigration detention centres.
It additionally works intently with the Nationwide Preventive Mechanism of States, public authorities and civil society organisations to enhance preventive measures.
Throughout its June session in Geneva, it adopted its first Common Touch upon the definition of locations of deprivation of liberty, which establishes the necessity to make sure that impartial monitoring our bodies, together with the SPT and nationwide preventive mechanisms, have full entry to locations of deprivation of liberty.
“There was a proliferation of amenities, locations and conditions from which an individual can not go away at will, whether or not in relation to the legal justice system or in administrative, navy, immigration, well being, social help or different contexts,” defined Suzanne Jabbour, president of the SPT.
“All of those locations are underneath the jurisdiction or management of a State. They might be managed by personal actors, formally recognised as locations of deprivation of liberty or solely casual settings. The adoption of the SPT’s first normal remark is important to offer readability to authorities, nationwide preventive mechanisms, civil society and all different related actors that each one such locations have to be topic to common impartial monitoring,” he added.
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– 2024-07-09 09:17:49
