Conference: 'Torture and Other Ill-treatment: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions'
The International Conference will be co-hosted by GANHRI, the UN Human Rights Office, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Danish Institute for Human Rights.
Torture completely violates the dignity and humanity of its victims, and national human rights institutions have a unique and critical role to play in ensuring states respect the absolute prohibition under international law, which constitutes a central pillar of their international and domestic human rights obligations.
The conference takes place every three years and aims at developing and strengthening the cooperation between national human rights institutions and to discuss relevant items on their agenda.
Addressing Torture and Other Ill-treatment
The 14th International Conference will explore the diverse practical and effective ways in which national human rights institutions can employ their broad mandates and extensive protective functions under the Paris Principles, to uphold the rights of all persons to human dignity and to freedom from torture and other ill-treatment. Special attention will be paid to the important role of cooperation at the regional and international levels.
The conference presents an important opportunity for national human rights institutions from around the world to consolidate the achievements they attained during previous conferences and, together with partners and stakeholders, to share experiences, identify good practices, and reaffirm their vital individual and collective commitments to ensuring the right of all persons to freedom from torture and other forms of ill-treatment.
The international conference will feature three days of extensive in-depth exchanges between national human rights institutions from all regions, experience and knowledge sharing, examinations good practices and challenges, as well as input from other relevant stakeholders including UN experts, regional organizations, CSOs undertaking relevant work, and grassroots activists and Human rights defenders.
At the conclusion of the conference, national human rights institutions will set out a practical set of strategies to promote and protect the rights of all persons to be free from torture and other ill-treatment, in an outcome document