Looking into #Chile 's innovative strategies for torture prevention, this article unpacks the critical role of monitoring police custody. With three insightful lessons, it offers a roadmap for global human rights advocacy and systemic change. Read: apt.ch/news/chile-thr…

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A fascinating approach to detention oversight. Brazil’s NPM now includes family members in its monitoring teams: to help plan visits, collect information and develop recommendations. drawing on their experience supporting loved ones in places of detention.
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Today is International Day of Transgender Visibility. We support the rights and dignity of trans people, at all times and in all places, including in detention
Our online course includes strategies for monitors to support trans women in detention: bit.ly/3IPQ8EL
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Last week, the APT was in Senegal to support the NPM deepen skills for #TorturePrevention and develop a new strategic plan. We were inspired by the determination and collective ownership of everyone involved with the NPM’s work.

Women face in detention can face additional risks of torture and ill-treatment. Oversight bodies are most effective in addressing these risks when they adopt a gender-sensitive approach when monitoring places of detention. More in our online course: bit.ly/3IPQ8EL

Wrapping up training of trainers with New Zealand Police and Thai reps from: Royal Police Cadet Academy, Bangkok Metro Police, Dept of Special Investigations & prosecutors from Off of Att Gen. Excellent discussions and practical activities to apply #MendezPinciples ow.ly/SCZw50QVpYH

Important developments in Senegal this week. With the NPM of Senegal and OHCHR Regional Bureau in West Africa, we're deepening our work for #TorturePrevention
Together, we can prevent torture
ONU Droits de l'Homme - Afrique de l'Ouest Robert Kotchani Aminata Maiga Amado Philip de Andrés

We have started a week-long training-of-trainers in Bangkok on the #PEACEModel of interviewing. We are collaborating with New Zealand Police to showcase how this approach gives effect to the #MendezPrinciples on effective interviewing for investigations.
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Great blog on the power of prison audits to use data for justice and significantly reduce the number of remand prisoners. Proud to support this initiative and the work of Paralegal Advisory Service Institute (Malawi) and The Governance and Justice Group
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Rencontre productive avec le Mécanisme National de Prévention de la Torture Mauritanien à Genève aujourd'hui !  Engagés à faire progresser notre objectif commun de prévention de la torture.

Huge thanks 🙏 to our co-hosts and excellent panel at DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture’s #HRC55 side-event today on Preventing Torture in Prison: Ib Petersen, Alice J Edwards UN Special Rapporteur Torture, Suzanne Jabbour, APT Geneva and Marie Brasholt. The video recording will soon be uploaded to YouTube. More on this soon.

'100+ attacks against women & LGBTIQ+ protesters were recorded during the 2021 national strike in #Colombia . The new protocol contains crucial guidelines to prevent gender-based violence by law enforcement officers.' 🎙️Ana Maria Rodriguez @coljuristas
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The UATC urges States to step up efforts to adopt holistic and structural prison reforms to tackle systemic risks of #torture and ill-treatment. #UnitedAgainstTorture Read the statement here: apt.ch/sites/default/…

🇪🇺Ambassador Wagner emphasized that the use of #torture to restrict civic space undermines the fabric of democracy itself and fuels further cycles of violence. We need human rights-based policing. #HRC55