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Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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torture

Preventive Mechanisms in the Struggle against Torture: monitoring Places of Deprivation of Liberty to prevent Human Rights Violations

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Italy

European Court of Human Rights: Italy condemned three times for inhumane and degrading treatment

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Italy

Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Italy

Political world map: states coloured in dark green have already ratified OPCAT, states in light green have signed, but not yet ratified OPCAT.
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United Nations

National Ombudsperson for the Rights of Persons Detained or Deprived of their Liberty: Hearing at the UN in Geneva

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Council of Europe

Council of Europe: Commissioner for Human Rights urges Italian Parliament to adopt a law on torture which is fully compliant with international human rights standards

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human rights

Photography exhibition “Codename: Caesar. Syrian detainees – victims of torture” at the Human Rights Centre

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Italy

National Ombudsperson for the Rights of Detainees: Presentation of First Activities Report for First Year of Mandate, Rome, March 21st 2017

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European Court of Human Rights: Italy violated the ECHR allowing the CIA’s abduction and extrajudicial transfer to Egypt of the imam Abu Omar

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United Nations

United Nations: the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture presents confidential preliminary findings to Italian Government

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Italy

United Nations: visit in Italy of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, 16-22 September 2015

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Italy

European Court of Human Rights: Italy condemned for torture for the facts occurred during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001

Amnesty International UK held a mass demostration in Downing Street, calling on the UK government not to turn a blind eye to torture
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United Nations

United Nations: UN Subcommittee on prevention of torture announced country visits for 2015 in Guatemala, Italy, Nauru and the Philippines

A jail's window
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seminars

Extreme sentences: life sentence and torture. A critical analysis of punishments, Padova, 6-7 June 2014

Two seminars on life sentence and torture
Nimba county prison inmate looks through a window of a cell, Liberia, 2008
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Italy

Council of Europe: a survey highlights the problem of prison overcrowding in Italy and in Europe

House of Representatives
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United Nations

Italian Parliament: the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture (OPCAT) has been ratified