The
Human Rights Defender, as the National Preventive Mechanism, organized a
two-day training course on “Prevention of Torture and Inhuman Treatment” in
Tsakhkadzor on December 19-20, for representatives of state bodies.
Participants
of the training included employees of the Ministries of Justice, Health, Labor
and Social Affairs and Internal Affairs, Penitentiary Service and Penitentiary
Institutions, “Penitentiary Medicine Center” SNCO, and the Community Policing
Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Opening
remarks were delivered by Mr. Vladimir Hovhannisyan, Head of Department General
for Protection of Civil, Socio-Econimic and Cultural Rights of the Human Rights
Defender's Office of the Republic of Armenia, Ms. Laura Gasparyan, Head of the
Department for the Prevention of Torture and Ill-Treatment and Coordinator of
the Implementation of the National Preventive Mechanism of the Human Rights
Defender’s Office, and Mr. Tigran Grigoryan, Human Rights Programme Coordinator
at UNDP.
The
purpose of the event was to present the mandate and functions of the National
Preventive Mechanism, contribute to strengthening the professional capacities
of sectoral staff and promote cooperation aimed at establishing an effective
system for the prevention of torture and ill-treatment.
In
their opening remarks, the representatives of the Human Rights Defender’s
Office emphasized the importance of implementing continuous trainings in this
format and reaffirmed that the problems in the field cannot be solved only by
recording them or directly raising them, but by making them visible through
joint, coordinated efforts and finding solutions within a cooperative
framework.
The
training was conducted by Ms. Laura Gasparyan and Mr. Hovhannes Ghukasyan,
Deputy Head of the Department for the Prevention of Torture and Ill-Treatment
of the Human Rights Defender’s Office.
Ms.
Laura Gasparyan presented to the participants with the mandate and functions of
the National Preventive Mechanism, the legal definition and concept of torture
in the domestic legal system and international documents, international
documents in the field of torture prevention and CPT standards.
The
event was organized within the framework of the European Union–funded program
“Promoting Human Rights Protection and Strengthening National Institutions”,
implemented jointly with the United Nations Development Programme, UNICEF, and
the United Nations Population Fund.
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