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

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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

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United Nations

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

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Italy

The Justice Commission of the Italian Senate approves the Bill for the introduction of the crime of torture in the Italian criminal code

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United Nations

The Foreign Affairs Commission of the Italian Senate approves the Bill for the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against torture

Cover of the European Committee Report for the prevention of torture in occasion of its fifth periodic visit to Italy, 14-26 September 2008
Italy

Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Italy

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Public meeting on the Italian Parliament's Prospects of Ratification and Implementation of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (OPCAT), University of Padova, 26 March 2010

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Setting Up an active network of national preventive mechanisms against torture. An activity of the Peer-to-Peer Network (2010-ongoing). European National Preventive Mechanism against torture (NPM) Project, University of Padova, 2010

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1st Thematic NPM Workshop on “The role of NPMs in preventing ill-treatment in psychiatric institutions”, Padua (Italy), 24-25 March 2010

Participants to the first meeting of the “European National Preventive Mechanisms (NPM) Project”, held in Padua on 27-28 January 2010.
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1st Meeting of European NPM Contact Persons, Padua (Italy), 27-28 January 2010

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Annual meeting of Contact Persons, Budapest, 17-18 November 2009