GENEVA (22 September 2022) – The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) will visit Ecuador from 25 September to 1 October 2022 in light of recent prison riots and violence. Rights experts from...

GENEVA (21 September 2022) – Türkiye must take further action to strengthen the effective safeguards of detainees from torture and ill-treatment, especially during the first hours of detention and...

GENEVA (1 September 2022) - The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) will visit Türkiye from 4 to 15 September 2022. “This upcoming mission follows the SPT’s first visit to Türkiye in 2015...

GENEVA (30 June 2022) — The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) confirmed its upcoming visits to Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ecuador and Türkiye in the second half of this year, and...

GENEVA (24 June 2022) – Human rights experts from the three UN anti-torture mechanisms* have urged States members to provide the necessary material and legal conditions to enable health personnel to...

GENEVA (12 May 2022) – The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) is concerned about the prolonged pre-trial detention, overcrowding and deplorable living conditions in places of deprivation...

GENEVA (4 May 2022) – Argentina has progressed in the prevention of torture through the creation of the National Committee for the Prevention of Torture and other mechanisms that act at the provincial...

GENEVA (3 May 2022) - The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) is set to visit Lebanon from 4 to 10 May 2022 to assess the country’s implementation of the recommendations it made during its...

GENEVA (14 April 2022) - The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) is set to visit Argentina from 20 to 30 April 2022 to assess the country’s implementation of the recommendations it made...

GENEVA (6 April 2022) – Tunisia has made progress in torture prevention by setting up a functional national monitoring body, but severe problems, such as police violence, remain to be addressed, UN...