Monitoring the use of weapons and methods of restraint by law enforcement personnel in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
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The workshop will bring together up to 30 detention monitors from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, including relevant experts from Ombudspersons’ Institutions (OI), National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs) established under the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (OPCAT) and civil society, as well as other international and national experts.
The workshop aims to strengthen the independent monitoring of places of deprivation of liberty by enhancing the capacity of independent oversight bodies and civil society organizations to monitor the use of force, methods of restraint and equipment used by law enforcement personnel. This is planned to be achieved by bringing expertise to the table and ensuring information exchange between detention monitors in the three Central Asian countries.
The workshop will also provide an opportunity to emphasize the crucial role that independent monitoring bodies, in particular NPMs, play in preventing torture and other ill-treatment, and the importance of OPCAT in this regard, including its ratification and the establishment of NPMs in line with the OPCAT requirements.
Participation in this event is by invitation only.
Background
The workshop is part of ODIHR’s continued work on preventing torture and other ill-treatment and strengthening the independent monitoring of places of deprivation of liberty in the OSCE region. It builds on previous capacity building activities on monitoring weapons and methods of restraint organized by ODIHR in Central Asia, in particular a training for the National Centre for the Prevention of Torture of Kyrgyzstan that took place in April 2022 in Bishkek.