From the 27 to 28 April 2010, the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) and Amnesty International Senegal, in collaboration with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), jointly organised a timely regional conference on the prevention of torture. The event was held in Dakar, Senegal, under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice of Senegal.

Uganda has ratified most of the International Human Rights Treaties including the United Nations Convention against Torture (UNCAT), and has demonstrated clear engagement and cooperation with international and regional human rights mechanisms. To assist Uganda in fulfilling its international obligations under UNCAT, a coalition of human rights organizations, in collaboration with the APT, have initiated a draft Bill on prohibition and prevention of torture in Uganda. A meeting on this draft Bill for key national stakeholders took place on Friday 27 March in Kampala.

For the third year in a row, the APT and its partner the International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture organized a three-day training seminar for 13 NGOs from francophone Africa. For the first time, the links between the civil society organisations and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights were reinforced thanks to the participation of the President of the Robben Island Guidelines follow-up Committee, Mrs. Dupe Atoki.

The 2008 session took place from 15 to 17 December 2008 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The 26 participants to the seminar took the opportunity to assess the achievements of previous workshops (2006 in Bujumbura, and 2007 in Bamako). Furthermore, the APT and FIACAT were able to meet with an array of relevant national partners and assess the implementation of a FIACAT/APT partnership project on the improvement of conditions of detention in Burkina Faso.

From 27 to 29 November 2006, the APT organised jointly with the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) and the African Centre for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims (ACTV), a three-day training workshop for representatives of civil society organisations in Kampala, Uganda.

This workshop was a kick-off event of a five-year project aiming to enhance the capacity of civil society organisations and the UHRC to monitor places of detention as well as to advocate for the ratification and implementation of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture. This programme will also reinforce the cooperation between the UHRC and civil society organisations.