MEDIA INVITATION

30/06/2013

The Ombudsperson Institution will organize a roundtable on the “National Mechanism for Torture Prevention, challenges, opportunities and the progress made”, on Monday, 1 July 2013 in Prishtina (“Sirius” Hotel), from 11:00-14:00.

The roundtable will aim to inform, lobby and raise the public’s awareness.
The discussion will focus on the report of the work accomplished so far and the joint activities organized within the period January-June 2013 by the Task Force on the National Preventive Mechanisms of Torture1. At the same time a report with findings will be presented from monitoring the two biggest Correctional Centers in Kosovo.
The media are invited to follow the event! Please find attached a detailed agenda.
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1During 2011 the Ombudsperson Institution (OI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Kosova Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims and the Council for Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms (CDHRF), within the framework of a joint initiative for a National Campaign against Torture. This agreement regulates the cooperation of the signatory parties to protect the rights of persons referred to in the Optional Protocol of Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) with the aim of establishing a joint Task Force in charge for advocating the establishment of a National Preventing Mechanisms in Kosovo.