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Nauru - OPCAT Situation

Updated 08.05.2013

Shortly after having ratified the Convention against Torture (September 2012), Nauru took a step further in preventing torture and other ill-treatment and became the 67th State Party to the OPCAT in January 2013.

The SPT member Lowell Patria Goddard is the SPT Focal Point for Nauru.

Opcat status
OPCAT Ratification January 24, 2013
UNCAT Ratification September 26, 2012
NPM Designated

Under Consideration

Information
Population 9378 (est. 2012)
Area (sq km) 21
Number of prisons 1
Prison population 20 (ICPS)
Quick links

UPR: Report of the Working Group (January 2011)