Today the Australian Government announced their intention to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) by December 2017. The OPCAT was signed by the Australian Government in 2009. By announcing its intention to ratify OPCAT, the Australian...
The Government’s failure to allow prisons, Garda stations and other places of detention to be inspected by the United Nations has become a source of national embarrassment, a senior UN official has said. Malcolm Evans said at the last universal periodic review of the...
