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Articles related to prevention of torture

Articles related to prevention of torture

On 1 October 2015, the Parliamentary Ombudsman's National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) attended the seminar 'Förebygga tortyr i Sverige och Europa' (Preventing torture in Sweden and Europe) organised by the Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsmen (JO).

Visit report points out shortcomings at the psychiatric department at Telemark Hospital. Read the report's summary and recommendations here.

Women are not offered the same services as men in Trondheim Prison. Read the visit report's summary and recommendations here.

The Parliamentary Ombudsman visits all locations where people are deprived of their liberty. As part of this work, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has initiated a programme of visits to mental health care institutions. The NPM's first visit to this type of institution was to Diakonhjemmet Hospital.

That is the question posed to Helga Fastrup Ervik, head of the Norwegian National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), and representatives from several international NPMs in a new video from the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT). The video was published for the occation of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, today, 26 June. 2015.

Read the report's summary and recommendations here.

Read the report's summary and recommendations here.

Read the report's summary and recommendations here.

Role confusion between the accident and emergency unit and the police at Lillestrøm. Both the Lillestrøm police and the local accident and emergency unit regard medical examinations requested by the police as forensic work.

- Based on what we have seen in 2014, Norway needs a body that has a special mandate to detect and prevent any risk of torture and ill-treatment in places of detention, says Parliamentary Ombudsman Aage Thor Falkanger.

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