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    Welcome to the Council of Europe HELP course on CPT Standards!

    The course was developed by the Council of Europe HELP Programme in close cooperation with the CPT Secretariat, and with the support of the Project Strengthening the application of the European Convention on Human Rights in Georgia”, under the EU/CoE Partnership for Good Governance.

    Background:

    The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) is the Council of Europe monitoring body tasked with visiting places of detention and assessing how persons deprived of their liberty are treated, in order to strengthen their protection from torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Since its inception in 1989, the CPT has visited thousands of such places of deprivation of liberty.

    After each visit, the CPT sends a detailed report to the State concerned. This report includes the CPT’s findings, and its recommendations, comments and requests for information. Over decades, in its reports, the CPT has developed abundant standards in various areas (e.g. creating a culture of “zero tolerance” of ill-treatment, developing legal safeguards against ill-treatment, , carrying out effective investigations into alleged ill-treatment, ensuring suitable detention conditions, providing appropriate health care, etc.).

    The purpose of the Council of Europe HELP course on CPT standards is to familiarize you with the CPT’s key standards concerning the five most important places of deprivation of liberty: police stations, prisons, immigration detention facilities, psychiatric establishments and social care homes.

    The course was published in September 2019. For more details, please download this course brief.

    Available languages:

    eng | ara | deu | ell | hye | ita | katmkd | ronrus | slk | spa | tur | ukr 


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