LVIV, 13 November 2014 – The Fifth East European Conference on National Preventive Mechanisms, co-hosted by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, the
country’s Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights and the Kharkiv Institute for Social Researches, started in Lviv today.
The two-day will discuss the challenges and practical aspects of the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (OPCAT) in Eastern Europe and the OSCE region as a whole. Conference participants, including the Ombudsman of Ukraine, governmental officials and NGO experts, will focus specifically on the functioning of national preventive mechanism in Ukraine and the role of civil …read more
Source: OSCE