Date: 12 November 2018
Time: 4.30pm - 6.30pm
Venue: Ormond Meeting Rooms, 31-36 Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin 7
The Irish Penal Reform Trust and the Irish Criminal Bar Association will co-host a seminar on Detention, Human Rights and the OPCAT.
This event will carry 1.5 CPD points for both solicitors and barristers.
Speakers:
Ireland signed the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture* (‘OPCAT’) in 2007. Legislation intended to ratify the OPCAT will be introduced by Government before the end of 2018. The enactment of strong legislation, covering a broad range of detention facilities, is essential to safeguarding human rights and effective prevention of torture in all places of detention in Ireland.
This seminar will be of interest to legal and other professionals concerned with conditions of detention wherever children and adults can be deprived of their liberty in Ireland, including: police stations, prisons, children’s secure care centres, psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes, among others.
The seminar is an opportunity for practitioners to engage with the practical experience of ratifying OPCAT and implementation of the National Preventative Mechanism. For more information, visit: opcat-ireland.com
To register for the event, please email info@iprt.ie.
* The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (‘OPCAT’) is an international human rights treaty which assists States in preventing torture and other forms of ill-treatment in all places of detention. The OPCAT applies to anywhere people are deprived of their liberty. The ratification of OPCAT would positively impact the lives of vulnerable children and adults. Ireland signed the OPCAT in October 2007, but has not yet ratified it.