Event: Jesuit Refugee Service USA – “The Expanding Global Detention System as a Pillar of Externalized Enforcement: How We Reached this Point, a Normative Human Rights Framework, and Pushing Back Against Extremist Policies” Moderator: Donald Kerwin (JRS/USA Senior Ignatian Fellow) Panellists: Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project Executive Director); Dr Izabella Majcher (Consultant); Dr Angelo Pittaluga […]
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GDP Hosts Third Interactive Webinar: The Role of OPCAT in Preventing Harmful Immigration Detention
On Monday 5 September, the GDP hosted the third in its series of interactive webinars aimed at building stronger connections between local civil society organisations and international human rights instruments and exploring how these instruments can be applied to protect the rights of detained refugees and migrants. Examining the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT), this webinar explored the role of the OPCAT bodies—the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT) and National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs). […]
