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Overcrowded prisons
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Prison overcrowding: the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture calls for setting a limit to the number of inmates in every prison and promoting non-custodial measures

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)  called upon the European states to address the problem of persistent prison overcrowding. “Prison ...

Last update 6 Jun 2022
UN torture prevention body calls for vaccination programmes for people deprived of liberty
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Vaccination programmes for people deprived of liberty

The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture(SPT) has called on States to ensure that people deprived of liberty are included in national vaccination programmes against COVID-19, and to continue ...

Last update 23 Aug 2021
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Council of Europe: Committee for the Prevention of Torture warns against impact of austerity measures on prison conditions

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has issued a set of minimum requirements for conditions of detention in European prisons, concerned by the negative ...

Last update 14 May 2021
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Consiglio d'Europa

Documentazione (1988)

Documentazione

Last update 9 Nov 2010