BackIn this report, the Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia reports on the implementation of the duties and powers of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) in 2021 under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its 57th session on 18 December 2002 and opened for signature and ratification from 4 February 2003.
The Optional Protocol establishes a system of regular (preventive) on-site visits by independent international and national authorities to places where people are deprived of their liberty, to prevent torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
At the international level, the Optional Protocol establishes the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Comimittee against Torture (CAT), and obliges each State Party to the Protocol to establish, designate and maintain at the national level a visiting body or bodies for the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (NPM).
Please find the NPM Report 2021 just as the Summary of the work of the Human rights Ombudsman in the download section below.
Source: Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman, Republic of Slovenia
