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Monitoring Psychiatric Institutions and Closed Healthcare Facilities
Training
- Date:
- Location:
- Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Organized by:
- OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Source:
- OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
- Fields of work:
- Human rights
About the event
Bosnia and Herzegovina has taken steps toward strengthening its National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) in line with the requirements of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT). In 2023, the law on the Human Rights Ombudsmen of Bosnia and Herzegovina was amended to add the preventive mechanism mandate to the institution.
Challenges exist in the monitoring of psychiatric institutions and other closed medical settings, as it requires specific expertise: these environments involve both medical and detention-related safeguards and can present particular risks for ill-treatment if oversight mechanisms lack specialised knowledge. As the preventive mechanism is new, it requested a practical training to effectively carry out its mandate regarding the monitoring of psychiatric institutions and preventing torture and ill-treatment.
Against this background, ODIHR and the OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina provide targeted training to the members of the newly established preventive mechanism and relevant stakeholders.
Purpose of the training
The training course aims at:
- strengthening the capacity of NPM members of Bosnia and Herzegovina to conduct monitoring visits to places of deprivation of liberty, in particular psychiatric institutions and closed healthcare facilities
- enhancing knowledge of UN and Council of Europe standards and practical skills related to monitoring psychiatric institutions and closed healthcare facilities
- practising interviewing skills in psychiatric institutions and closed healthcare facilities
- strengthening the preventive oversight mechanism in line with international torture prevention standards and OPCAT requirements
Participants
The course is designed for NPM members of the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsmen of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is only open to already selected participants.
Contact
For more information about ODIHR’s work regarding torture prevention, please contact ODIHR Adviser on Torture Prevention, Nini Sandborg, at
Nini.Sandborg@odihr.pl.
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