The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) made a submission to the United Nations Committee against Torture (UNCAT), in advance of the Second Periodic Review of Ireland under the United Nations Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which takes place on 27th and 28th July 2017 in Geneva.
In the submission, IPRT recommended that the Committee ask the Irish government for a clear timetable for the ratification of OPCAT.
Read the full submission here.
IPRT also produced a briefing containing recommendations and additional information, which can be read here.
In May 2011, IPRT and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties submitted the Joint Shadow Report to the First Periodic Review of Ireland under the United Nations Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. IPRT thanks the ICCL for permission to re-use the design in the present submission.
The 2011 Joint Shadow Report to the First Periodic Review of Ireland under the UNCAT can be read here.