These project is funded by the European Union  

 

Prevention of Torture in Georgia (DDH/2006/118-126) 

 

General information:

Since February 2007, PRI has been implementing an EU-funded project “Prevention of Torture in Georgia” together with its partners. The duration of the project is 3 years.

Overall objective of the project: raise awareness of, and support effective implementation of OPCAT in Georgia as a means of strengthening and institutionalising measures to prevent torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and of addressing features (eg gaps in legislation, regulations, practices, lack of information on typology of victims), that make people in Georgia vulnerable to torture.

Specific objectives:

To gather, analyse and make available information on the key elements needed for the successful implementation of the OPCAT, both at national (building a national mechanism, coordination of information between different elements of that mechanism and communication by that mechanism with relevant national officials) and international (relationship with the OPCAT Sub-Committee) level;

To provide training and capacity building activities for those of the target groups who will be principally involved in Georgia’s implementation of the OPCAT, in particular building on national best practice that is currently offered by the establishment of civil society prison monitoring groups, and less formally, psychiatric institution monitoring groups.

To publicise the need for a torture prevention mechanism in Georgia and the corresponding need to adequately prepare for implementation of the OPCAT, using existing national examples as well as international best practice examples provided by APT.

Partners in the project are:

Association for Prevention of Torture (APT), Geneva - http://www.apt.ch/

Global Initiative on Psychiatry (GIP), South Caucasus Regional Office Tbilisi - http://www.gip-global.org/

 

 

 

Activities:

press release for the Conference ‘Is Georgia ready for the UN Optional Protocol to the Torture Convention?’ Read more>>>

Documents:

Report to the Georgian Government on the visit to Georgia carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT). Read more>>>

The Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) launches the Russian version of its publication, Guide on the Establishment and Designation of National Preventive Mechanisms, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

CHECKLIST FOR HELPING TO ASSESS POTENTIAL NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISMS UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE (OPCAT)

SHORT CHECKLIST FOR HELPING TO ASSESS POTENTIAL NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISMS UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE (OPCAT)

Recommendations of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture Considered in light of the OPCAT

A practical guide - Monitoring places of detention

A practical guide for NGO’s - Monitoring places of detention

European Prison Rules: Committee of Ministers adopts new Recommendation

National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights

Survey of Existing Detention Monitoring Bodies in Georgia (I. Detention Monitoring under the Office of the Public Defender)

Survey of Existing Detention Monitoring Bodies in Georgia (II. Monitoring of Penitentiary Institutions under the Ministry of Justice by civil society bodies)

Survey - Attitudes of Georgia’s population towards crime and penal policy