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The Middle East and North Africa Programme

 

Torture prevention is a priority issue for many national actors in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The APT has therefore become increasingly active in the region over recent years in the framework of its global activities and its regional activities (for the African MENA countries). Subsequently, in 2007, the APT started a pilot programme targeted specifically at the region, which the APT is currently about to develop into a full-fledged programme.

 
  • Core Activities
    • Promoting independent, system-wide monitoring of places of detention
    • Lobbying for the ratification and implementation of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (CAT)
    • Supporting local actors in their engagements aiming at the implementation of States' obligations under the Convention against Torture and other international treaties

  • Recent Activities
    • Progress in the Implementation of a Lebanese National Preventive Mechanism
    • Egypt: The role of judges and prosecutors in supervising deprivation of liberty for juveniles
    • Lebanon: Implementing the Optional Protocol
    • Bahrain: The Criminalization and Prevention of Torture
    • Lebanon: Options for a National Preventive Mechanism
    • Premier séminaire national sur la mise en œuvre du Protocole facultatif au Maghreb
    • Morocco: The Criminalisation of Torture
    • Implementation of the Optional Protocol in Lebanon
    • Morocco: Lobbying for the OPCAT and dialogue on a future NPM
    • Promoting the OPCAT in Bahrain
    • Training on the criminalisation of torture in Morocco
    • Egypt: Strengthening independent inspection mechanisms for places of deprivation of liberty for children
    • Torture Prevention in Egypt
    • Maroc - octobre 2007
    • Monitoring human rights in places of detention in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
    • Workshop on Torture Prevention Skills for French-speaking national human rights institutions
    • Maroc - mai 2006

Featured Publication

What role for physicians? Arabic

Visiting places of detention - What role for physicians and other health professionals?

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