10 December 2009
The Human Rights Implementation centre together with Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Prisons in England and Wales will host one day event 'The National Preventive Mechanism for the United Kingdom: what it is and what it can do' on 14th December 2009. This will be the first event to bring together institutions that were designated to fulfil the role of the National Preventive Mechanism in the United Kingdom earlier this year. For further information, please visit the web site of the Human Rights Implementation Centre or contact Dr Elina Steinerte.Please contact Dr Elina Steinerte for further information.
The Human Rights Implementation Centre, based in the Law School, provides an international focus for developing expertise, advice and scholarship on the role of institutions, whether those are at the national, regional or international levels, in the implementation of human rights. These institutions include national governments and non-governmental organisations, but also statutory and constitutional bodies such as national human rights institutions, as well as regional bodies, such as the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Council of Europe, the Organisation on Security and Co-operation in Europe, as well as those under the UN, both treaty bodies, the Special Procedures and the OHCHR.