Global Status

National System to Prevent Torture, comprising:

• National Committee for the Prevention of Torture (composed of 13 members, including the Ombudsperson for Federal Prisons (Procurador Penitenciario de la Nación);
• a Federal Council of Local Preventive Mechanisms;
• Local preventive mechanisms (to be designated) in each of the 24 provinces;
• and public institutions and NGOs interested in the compliance of the OPCAT’s goals.

National System to Prevent and Combat Torture

Decentralised unit within Ombudsperson's Office(Defensoría de los Habitantes)

National Office to Prevent Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment

National Human Rights Commission

Ombuds Institution

Ombudsperson's Office (Defensoría del Pueblo)

Commonwealth Ombudsman, with state and territory NPMs still to be designated.

National Human Rights Commission

5 different bodies coordinated by the Human Rights Commission (central NPM), and including the Office of the Ombudsman, the Independent Police Conduct Authority, the Office of the Children’s Commissioner and the Inspector of Service Penal Establishments of the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces.

People's Advocate (Avokati i Popullit)

Austrian Ombudsman Board (Volksanwaltschaft)

Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria

Commissioner for Administration and Human Rights

Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman, in collaboration with DIGNITY (NGO) and the Danish Institute for Human Rights (National Human Rights Institution)

Parliamentary Ombudsperson's Office

Public Defender

Ombudsperson's Office

Parliamentary Ombudsman

Commissioner for Human Rights, in cooperation with public monitoring commissions and civil society

Corrections Commission (Vollzugskommission)

Ombudsperson's Office (Médiateure du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg)

Council for the Prevention of Torture, composed of 7 members, including the Ombudsperson (Moldovan Centre for Human Rights), the Ombudsperson for children and 5 members proposed by the civil society.

4 bodies are designated as the NPM: the Inspectorate of Security and Justice (IVenJ), which also acts as coordinating body; the Health Care Inspectorate (IGZ); the Inspectorate for Youth Care (IJZ); and the Council for the Administration of Criminal Justice and Protection of Juveniles (RSJ).

Parliamentary Ombudsman

Ombudsperson's Office (Provedor de Justiça)

Protector of Citizens, in cooperation with the ombudsperson's offices from the autonomous provinces and human rights associations

Ombudsperson's Office (Defensoría del Pueblo)

National Commission for the Prevention of Torture (Commission nationale pour la prévention de la torture)

Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights in collaboration with an Expert Council, human rights NGOs and individual monitors.

National Commission for Human Rights

National Human Rights Council (Conseil national des droits de l'Homme)

Commission nationale des droits humains

Commission Nationale Indépendante des Droits de l’Homme

National Human Rights Commission

National Committee on Torture

National Observer of Places of Deprivation of Liberty

National Human Rights Commission (Commission Nationale des Droits de l'Homme)