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APT GLOBAL FORUM ON THE OPCAT 10 - 11 November 2011 ENGLISH - ESPAÑOL - FRANÇAISFrom pledges to actions: overview of the outcomes
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 “Torture is not the monopoly of rogue states…the risks exist everywhere…” Abdou Diouf Secretary General of the Francophonie “My spirits were lifted by this coming together of so many people from across the world who believe in the prevention of torture. Keep going it is infinitely worth it.” Silvia Casale Former CPT and SPT Chairperson United Kingdom “Torture prevention is not about asking what happened and how it happened, but asking why it happens and how we can stop it happening.” Victor Rodriguez SPT member, Costa Rica “From the discussions I had with the APT and some participants, I am convinced that thanks to combined efforts of all of us, we will be able to implement the common objective we agreed upon. The Office will continue to bring its support in the framework of its mandate and available resources.” Mahamane Cissé-Gouro Regional Representative for West Africa, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Join the Global Forum on Facebook!  |
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| PRESENTATIONS - PRÉSENTATIONS - PRESENTACIONES | |
| OPENING CEREMONY | |
| Keynote Speech - Mr Juan Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Argentina | |
| Opening Address - Ambassador Peter Maurer, Secretary of State, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland | |
| Opening Address - Mr Abdou Diouf, Secretary General of the Francophonie, International Organisation of La Francophonie | |
| PLENARY SESSION | |
| Mr Mark Thomson, Secretary General, APT | |
| SESSION 1 - Ratification Campaigns and Implementation Advocacy | |
| Mr Ellecer Carlos, Advocacy Officer, Commission on Human Rights, Philippines | |
| Mr Seydi Gassama, Director, Amnesty International, Senegal | |
| SESSION 2 - Particularities of the Preventive Approach | |
| Mr Victor Rodriguez, SPT Member, Costa Rica | |
| Mr Greg Price, Chief Inspector, Ombudsmen’s Office, New Zealand | |
| Mr Edouard Delaplace, Adviser, Detention Unit, ICRC | |
| SESSION 3 - NPM’s Effectiveness: How to make it work? | |
| Ms Lauretta Vivian Lamptey, Chairperson, Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice, Ghana | |
| SESSION 4 - Investing in Torture Prevention | |
| Ms Roselyn Karugonjo-Segawa, Director Monitoring and Inspections, Human Rights Commission, Uganda | |
| Ms Odalis Najera, Member, National Commission for the Prevention of Torture, Honduras | |
| SESSION 5 - Getting recommendations implemented | |
| Ms Jeehan Mahmood, Commissioner, Human Rights Commission, Maldives | |
| Mr Luciano Mariz Maia, Regional Prosecutor, Brazil | |
| Ms Yakin Ertürk, CPT Member, Turkey | |
| SESSION 6 - Enhancing SPT’s impact | |
| Ms Elina Steinerte, Research Associate, Human Rights Implementation Centre, Bristol | |
| SESSION 7 - OPCAT as an innovative treaty or same as usual? | |
| Mr Matt Pollard, AI Senior Legal Adviser, UK | |
| Mr Mahamane Cissé-Gouro, Regional Representative, OHCHR Regional Office – West Africa, Senegal | |
| Ms Aya Kuwayama, Researcher, Centre for Prisoners Rights, Japan | |
| SESSION 8 - Achieving a more inclusive strategy on torture prevention | |
| Mr Juan Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Argentina | |
| Ms Suzanne Soukoude, Judge, Togo | |
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THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2011 | ||||
| 09:00-10:00 | Welcome and Opening Address | English | French | Spanish | |
| 10:30-12:30 | Plenary Session | English | French | Spanish | |
| 12:30-13:00 | Press Briefing | English | |||
| 14:00-16:30 | 1. Ratification Campaigns and Implementation Advocacy | English | |||
| 14:00-16:30 | 2. Particularities of the preventive approach | English | |||
| 14:00-16:30 | 3. NPM effectiveness: How to make it work? | English | French | Spanish | |
| 14:00-16:30 | 4. Investing in torture prevention | English | |||
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FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2011 | ||||
| 09:00-11:30 | 5. Getting Recommendations Implemented | English | |||
| 09:00-11:30 | 6. Enhancing SPT's Impact | English | |||
| 09:00-11:30 | 7. OPCAT as innovative treaty or same as usual? | English | |||
| 09:00-11:30 | 8. Achieving a more inclusive strategy on torture prevention | English | French | Spanish | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Wrap-up from Parallel Sessions | English | French | Spanish | |
| 16:45-17:30 | Closing Ceremony | English | French | Spanish | |
Objectives
- Stocktake on progress, results and impact of the OPCAT system, five years after its entry into force
- Identify challenges, gaps and ways forward in OPCAT implementation
- Mobilise, via the OPCAT, a variety of potential actors on torture prevention
- Review the role of the SPT to reinforce its impact
- Review the role of the NPMs to reinforce their impact
Expectations
- Invigorate collaboration and actions to better prevent torture worldwide
Justification
After its first five years of operation we believe that it is opportune to conduct a review of the novel OPCAT system to prevent torture. In principle the system is quite straight forward: regular visits by national and international assigned experts to all places of detention with the aim of identifying the risks and other factors that can lead to torture and other ill-treatment and making recommendations to prevent further ill-treatment. In practice launching the system with its unique preventive and collaborative approach has proved quite challenging.
During this evolution the APT has also had to adapt from being the organisation behind the drafting and adoption of the OPCAT to be a provider of advice and support on the implementation of the OPCAT and in particular on the functioning of National Preventive Mechanisms.
We believe that it makes a lot of sense for those persons directly involved in the application of the OPCAT to share and learn from different experiences. Furthermore preventing torture attracts the interest of a broad range of institutions and individuals, varying from inter-governmental agencies, NGOs, Judges, Parliamentarians, Police Officers, Doctors, Academics and the Media. Therefore the APT has already convened many regional and thematic meetings but so far no one has brought together all the States Parties and Signatories of the OPCAT with all the NPMs and the SPT, along with the main civil society players.
The OPCAT Global Forum will provide all interested parties with the unique opportunity to compare experiences, take notes on improving effectiveness and to consider ways of cooperating further in the interest of protecting better all detained persons from the horrors of torture and ill-treatment.
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FIRST MORNING - Thursday 10 November 2011 (PLENARY) | |||
| 8:00-8:45 | Registration | |||
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome by Chairperson of the APT Forum Ms Martine Brunschwig Graf, President, APT Ms Isabel Rochat, State Councillor, Department of Security, Police and Environment, Republic and Canton of Geneva |
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| 9:15-10:00 | Keynote Speech Mr Juan Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Argentina Opening Address Ambassador Peter Maurer, Secretary of State, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland Mr Abdou Diouf, Secretary General of the Francophonie, International Organisation of La Francophonie |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:30-12:30 | Launching of Debate Five years of OPCAT: Process and Impact Mr Bacre Ndiaye, Director, Human Rights Council and Special Procedures Division, OHCHR Mr Mark Thomson, Secretary General, APT Response from the Plenary Interpretation provided into English, French, Spanish and Russian |
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| 12:30-14:00 | Networking Lunch | |||
| FIRST AFTERNOON - Thursday 10 November 2011 (THEMATIC PARALLEL SESSIONS) | ||||
| 14:00-16:30 | 1. Ratification Campaigns and Implementation Advocacy Moderator Ms Sylvie Bukhari-de Pontual President, FIACAT Speaker 1 Mr Ellecer Carlos Advocacy Officer, Commission on Human Rights, Philippines Speaker 2 Mr Ghassan Moukheiber Parliamentarian, Lebanon Speaker 3 Mr Seydi Gassama Director, Amnesty International, Senegal Speaker 4 Mr Ulugbek Azimov Legal Expert, Independent Human Rights Group, Kyrgyzstan Interactive Debate Interpretation provided into English, French, Spanish and Russian |
2. Particularities of the Preventive Approach Moderator Mr Walter Suntinger Austrian Human Rights Advisory Board, Austria Speaker 1 Mr Victor Rodriguez SPT Member, Costa Rica Speaker 2 Mr Greg Price Chief Inspector, Ombudsmen’s Office, New Zealand Speaker 3 Mr Edouard Delaplace Adviser, Detention Unit, ICRC Speaker 4 Ms Dupe Atoki Chairperson, Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa, Nigeria Interactive Debate Interpretation provided into English, French and Spanish |
3. NPM’s Effectiveness: How to make it work? Moderator Mr Kerem Altiparmak Professor, Human Rights Centre, Ankara University, Turkey Speaker 1 Mr Jean-Marie Delarue General Controller of Places of Deprivation of Liberty, France Speaker 2 Ms Isabel Mansur Member of Local Preventive Mechanism, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro Speaker 3 Ms Lauretta Vivian Lamptey Chairperson, Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice, Ghana Interactive Debate Interpretation provided into English, French and Spanish, Russian |
4. Investing in Torture Prevention Moderator Ms Karen McKenzie Acting Head, Human Rights Unit, Commonwealth Secretariat Speaker 1 Ms Roselyn Karugonjo-Segawa Director Monitoring and Inspections, Human Rights Commission, Uganda Speaker 2 Mr Claude Wild Head of Human Security, DFAE, Switzerland Speaker 3 Ms Odalis Najera Member, National Commission for the Prevention of Torture, Honduras Interactive Debate Interpretation provided into English, French and Spanish |
| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 17:00-18:00 | Wrap-up from Parallel Sessions (in group languages) |
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| 18:00-19:30 | Reception |
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FINAL MORNING - Friday 11 November 2011 | |||
| 9:00-11:30 | Thematic Parallel Sessions | |||
| 5. Getting recommendations implemented Moderator Ms Silvia Casale Former CPT and SPT Chairperson, UK Speaker 1 Ms Jeehan Mahmood Commissioner, Human Rights Commission, Maldives Speaker 2 Mr Gnambi Garba Kodjo Director Penitentiary Services, Togo Speaker 3 Mr Luciano Mariz Maia Regional Prosecutor, Brazil Speaker 4 Ms Yakin Ertürk CPT Member, Turkey Interactive Debate Interpretation provided into English, French, Spanish and Russian |
6. Enhancing SPT’s impact Moderator Ms Therese Rytter Programme Manager and Legal Adviser, RCT, Denmark Speaker 1 Ms Elina Steinerte Research Associate, Human Rights Implementation Centre, Bristol Speaker 2 Mr Wilder Tayler SPT Member, Uruguay Speaker 3 Mr Nadim Houry Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch, Lebanon Speaker 4 Ms Diana Vargas Coordinator, Human Rights Department, Supreme Court of Justice, Paraguay Interactive Debate Interpretation provided into English, French, Spanish |
7. OPCAT as an innovative treaty or same as usual? Moderator Ms Mervat Rishmawi Human Rights Consultant, Palestine Speaker 1 Mr Matt Pollard AI Senior Legal Adviser, UK Speaker 2 Ms Elizabeth Odio Benito Former Chairperson, OPCAT Drafting Group, Costa Rica Speaker 3 Mr Mahamane Cissé-Gouro Regional Representative, OHCHR Regional Office – West Africa, Senegal Speaker 4 Ms Aya Kuwayama Researcher, Centre for Prisoners Rights, Japan Interactive Debate Interpretation provided into English, Spanish, French |
8. Achieving a more inclusive strategy on torture prevention Moderator Ms Martine Anstett Head of Division, International Organisation of La Francophonie, France Speaker 1 Mr Juan Méndez UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Argentina Speaker 2 Ms Suzanne Soukoude Judge, Togo Speaker 3 Mr Oliver Lewis Director, Mental Disability Advocacy Centre, Hungary Speaker 4 Ms Alice Edwards Senior Legal Coordinator, UNCHR Interactive Debate Interpretation provided into English, French, Spanish and Russian |
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| 11.30-12:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 12:00-13:00 | Wrap-up from Parallel Sessions (in Plenary) |
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| 13:00-14:30 | Networking Lunch | |||
| FINAL AFTERNOON - Friday 11 November 2011 (Names to be Confirmed) | |||||
| 14:15-16:15 | Regional Roundtables - Setting Priorities | ||||
| Africa Moderator Mr Jean-Baptiste Niyizurugero Africa Programme Officer, APT Rapporteur Ms Ilaria Paolazzi Adviser, Africa Programme, APT Interpretation provided in English and French |
Middle East & North Africa Moderator Ms Esther Schaufelberger MENA Programme Officer, APT Rapporteur Mr Matthew Sands Legal Adviser, APT Interpretation provided in English and French |
Americas Moderator Ms Sylvia Dias Director, APT Office for Latin America Rapporteur Ms Isabelle Heyer Americas Programme Officer, APT Interpretation provided in English and Spanish |
Asia - Pacific Moderator Mr Vincent Ploton Institutional Development Officer, APT Rapporteur Ms Tanya Norton Detention Monitoring Programme Officer, APT English |
Europe & Central Asia Moderator Mr Matthew Pringle Europe and Central Asia Programme Officer, APT Rapporteur Mr Jean-Sébastien Blanc Detention Monitoring Programme Adviser, APT Interpretation provided in English and Russian |
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| 16:15-16:45 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 16:45-17:30 | Wrap-up of the Regional Roundtables Ms Barbara Bernath, Chief of Operations, APT Closing Ceremony Mr Malcolm Evans, Chairperson, UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture Ms Martine Brunschwig Graf, President, APT |
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Geneva and Swiss Authorities
Mr Renaud Gautier, President, Grand Conseil, Geneva
Ambassador Peter Maurer, Secretary of State, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland Read more (French)...
Ms Isabel Rochat, State Councillor, Department of Security, Police and Environment, Republic and Canton of Geneva
Mr Claude Wild, Head of Human Security, DFAE, Switzerland
International Organisation of La Francophonie
Mr Abdou Diouf, Secretary General of the Francophonie, International Organisation of La Francophonie, Senegal Read more...
Ms Martine Anstett, Head of Division, France Read more...
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Mr Bacre Ndiaye, Director, Human Rights Council and Special Procedures Division Read more...
Mr Mahamane Cissé-Gouro, Regional Representative, OHCHR Regional Office – West Africa, Senegal Read more...
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
Mr Juan Méndez, Argentina Read more...
UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Mr Malcolm Evans, Chairperson, United Kingdom Read more...
Mr Victor Rodriguez, member and former Chairperson, Costa Rica
Mr Wilder Tayler, member, Uruguay Read more...
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Ms Alice Edwards, Senior Legal Coordinator, UNHCR
Regional Monitoring Bodies
Ms Dupe Atoki, Chairperson, Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa Read more...
Ms Yakin Ertürk, Member, European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, Turkey Read more...
Experts
Ms Silvia Casale, former CPT and SPT Chairperson, United Kingdom Read more...
Ms Karen McKenzie, Acting Head, Human Rights Unit, Commonwealth Secretariat
Mr Matt Pollard, AI Senior Legal Adviser, United Kingdom Read more...
Ms Elizabeth Odio Benito, former Chairperson, OPCAT Working Group, Costa Rica Read more...
International Committee of the Red Cross
Mr Edouard Delaplace, Adviser, Detention Unit, ICRC, Switzerland Read more...
International Civil Society Institutions and Organisations
Ms Sylvie Bukhari-de Pontual, President, FIACAT, France (Moderator) Read more (French)...
Ms Therese Rytter, Programme Manager and Legal Adviser, RCT, Denmark (Moderator) Read more...
Ms Elina Steinerte, Research Associate, Human Rights Implementation Centre, Bristol University, United Kingdom Read more...
Mr Oliver Lewis, Executive Director, Mental Disability Advocacy Centre, Hungary Read more...
National Preventive Mechanisms
Ms Jeehan Mahmood, Commissioner, Human Rights Commission, Maldives Read more...
Mr Greg Price, Chief Inspector, Ombudsmen’s Office, New Zealand Read more...
Mr Jean-Marie Delarue, Head, Controller of Places of Deprivation of Liberty, France Read more...
Ms Odalis Najera, Member, National Commission for the Prevention of Torture, Honduras
National Actors (Authorities, National Human Rights Institutions, Civil Society Actors etc):
Asia and the Pacific
Mr Ellecer Carlos, Advocacy Officer, Commission on Human Rights, Philippines Read more...
Ms Aya Kuwayama, Centre for Prisoners Rights, Japan
Middle East and North Africa
Mr Ghassan Moukheiber, Parliamentarian, Lebanon Read more...
Mr Nadim Houry, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch, Lebanon Read more...
Ms Mervat Rishmawi, Human Rights Consultant, Palestine Read more...
Africa
Mr Seydi Gassama, Director, Amnesty International, Senegal Read more...
Ms Suzanne Soukoude, Judge, Togo Read more...
Mr Gnambi Garba Kodjo, Director Penitentiary Services, Togo Read more (French)...
Ms Roselyn Karugonjo-Segawa, Director Monitoring and Inspections, Human Rights Commission, Uganda Read more...
Ms Lauretta Vivian Lamptey, Chairperson, Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice, Ghana Read more...
Europe and Central Asia
Mr Kerem Altiparmak, Academic, Turkey (Moderator) Read more...
Mr Walter Suntinger, Member, Austrian Human Rights Advisory Board, Austria (Moderator) Read more...
Mr Ulugbek Azimov, Legal Expert, Independent Human Rights Group, Kyrgyz Republic Read more...
Americas
Mr Luciano Mariz Maia, Regional Prosecutor, Brazil Read more (Portuguese)...
Ms Isabel Mansur, Member, Local Preventive Mechanism, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro Read more...
Ms Diana Vargas, Coordinator, Human Rights Department, Supreme Court of Justice, Paraguay Read more...
Association for the Prevention of Torture
Ms Martine Brunschwig Graf, APT President, Switzerland
Mr Mark Thomson, Secretary General, United Kingdom Read more...
The APT is committed to ensure a regional, gender and skills balance amongst participants, of which 300 are expected to attend. The programme is designed to encourage in-depth discussions and exchanges. Participation is upon invitation only.
In line with the objectives of the OPCAT Global Forum, the APT extended an invitation to:
- one to two representatives from the 60 States Parties and 21 States Signatories to the OPCAT, who include: one representative of the state (officials from relevant ministries, parliamentarians, judges, responsible of detention centres etc) and one non-state torture prevention actor (national preventive mechanism, national human rights institution, civil society organisations etc);
- one to two representatives from States which have given serious considerations to the ratification and implementation of the OPCAT, who include the same profiles as mentioned above;
- the 25 members of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and its OHCHR Secretariat;
- the chairpersons of the relevant United Nations bodies and mechanisms working on torture prevention issues, including the Committee against Torture, the Human Rights Committee, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture etc;
- the chairpersons or representatives from the regional torture prevention bodies;
- representatives from international, regional and national non-governmental organisations working on torture prevention issues, in particular the OPCAT Contact Group; and
- representatives from the OHCHR and other relevant UN and intergovernmental bodies.
Contributions from Participants
Action of Christians for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT), Republic Democratic of Congo: French
Short briefing papers are now available in English, French, Spanish and Russian. They specify the objectives and content of the thematic sessions as well as the regional roundtables. They propose concrete ways forward and some questions for debates. On that basis, participants can now register on-line for the sessions of their own interest.
The briefing papers focus on the following issues:
| THEMATIC BRIEFING PAPERS |
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| Ratification campaigns and implementation advocacy (Session 1) | English | French | Russian | Spanish |
| Particularities of the preventive approach (Session 2) | English | French | Russian | Spanish |
| NPM’s effectiveness: how to make it work? (Session 3) | English | French | Russian |
Spanish |
| Investing in torture prevention (Session 4) | English | French | Russian |
Spanish |
| Getting recommendations implemented (Session 5) | English | French | Russian |
Spanish |
| Enhancing SPT’s impact (Session 6) | English | French | Russian |
Spanish |
| OPCAT as an innovative treaty or same as usual? (Session 7) | English | French | Russian |
Spanish |
| Achieving a more inclusive strategy on torture prevention (Session 8) | English | French | Russian |
Spanish |
| REGIONAL BRIEFING PAPERS | ||||
| Setting priorities in Africa | English | French | Russian |
Spanish |
| Setting priorities in the Americas | English | French | Russian |
Spanish |
| Setting priorities in Asia and the Pacific | English | French | Russian |
Spanish |
| Setting priorities in Europe and Central Asia | English | French | Russian |
Spanish |
| Setting priorities in the Middle East and North Africa | English | French | Russian |
Spanish |
| GENERAL BACKGROUND PAPER | ||||
| OPCAT Achievements and Challenges | English | French | Russian | Spanish |
The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) builds and coordinates, on behalf of the Federal Council, the foreign policy of Switzerland. The activity of the DFA is based on the foreign policy goals, such as the Federal Constitution defines them. The promotion of human rights is one of these five objectives. In collaboration with other State, civil society and experts, Switzerland strives to improve the human rights situation for the greatest number of people in the world. The Political Affairs Division IV Human Security: Peace, Human Rights, Humanitarian Policy and Migration, is responsible for the implementation of civil measures promoting peace and the strengthening of human rights.
For further information, please refer to: http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/home.html
The International Organisation of La Francophonie represents one of the biggest linguistic zones in the world. Its members share more than just a common language. They also share the humanist values promoted by the French language. The French language and its humanist values represent the two cornerstones on which the International Organisation of La Francophonie is based.
The International Organisation of La Francophonie was created in 1970. Its mission is to embody the active solidarity between its 75 member states and governments (56 members and 19 observers), which together represent over one-third of the United Nations’ member states and account for a population of over 890 million people, including 220 million French speakers.
For further information, please refer to: http://www.francophonie.org
