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Compilation of information on NPMs based on State Parties submissions to the SPT

Country
Date of ratification/accession
National Preventive Mechanism (NPM)
Information received from States Parties following requests from the SPT
Designated NPM notified by the State Patry to the SPT
Albania 01.10.2003 (a) People's Advocate Correspondence
Azerbaijan* 28.01.2009   Correspondence
Costa Rica 01.12.2005

Defensoria de los Habitantes

Ombudsman

Correspondence
Cyprus 29.04.2009 Commissioner of Administration/Ombudsman Correspondence
Czech Republic 10.07.2006 Public Defender of Rights Correspondence
Denmark 25.06.2004 Ombudsman Correspondence
Estonia 18.12.2006 Chancellor of Justice Correspondence
France 11.11.2008 Contrôleur Général des lieux de privation de liberté Correspondence
Georgia 09.08.2005 (a) Office of the Public Defender Correspondence
Correspondence
Germany** 04.12.2008

The Federal Agency for the Prevention of Torture and the Join Commission of the Lander were designated as NPM

The first one will deal with federal institutions and the second one will deal with Lander authorities.

Correspondence
Honduras 23.05.2006 National Committee for the Prevention of Torture Correspondence
Liechtenstein 03.11.2006 Corrections Commission Correspondence
Maldives 15.02.2006 Human Rights Commission Correspondence

Report on the First Periodic Visit to Maldives
Malta 24.09.2003 Board of Visitors for Detained Persons and the Board of Visitors of the Prisons

Correspondence

Chapter 260
Prison regulations LN 118
LN 265
LN 266
LN 341
Extent to which Legal Notices reflect preventive mandate in OPCAT’s NPM (Unofficial Comparative Table)

Mexico 11.04.2005 National Human Rights Commission Correspondence

Information contained in the confidential SPT visit report

Moldova 3.04.2009 Centre for Human Rights (Ombudsman) in coordination with the Consultative Council Correspondence
Annexes: 1-2
New Zealand 14.03.2007 Human Rights Commission (central NPM) + the Ombudsman's Office, the Children's Commissioner, the Police Complaints Authority and the Judge Advocate General Correspondence
Poland 14.09.2005 The Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection (Ombudsman) Correspondence
Republic of Moldova 24.07.2006 Centre for Human Rights (Ombudsman) in combination with the Consultative Council Correspondence
Senegal 18.10.2006 Observateur national des lieux de privation de liberté Correspondence
Slovenia 23.01.2007 (a) Human Rights Ombudsman Correspondence
Sweden 14.09.2005 Parliamentary Ombudsman and the Chancellor of Justice Correspondence

Replies from Sweden to the Recommendations and Questions of the SPT in its report on the First Periodic Visit to Sweden CAT/OP/SWE/1/Add.1

Report on the First Periodic Visit to Sweden

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northen Ireland 10.12.2003 Eighteen organizations, including the lay visitor scheme organisations (ICVA), the HM Inspectorate for Prisons, and the HM Inspectorate for Constabulary, coordinated by the HM Inspector for Prisons Correspondence
Uruguay 08.12.2005 Institución Nacional de Derechos Humanos

Correspondence
Annexes: 1-2-3-4

No designation of NPM notified by the State Party to the SPT
Argentina 15.11.2004   Correspondence
Armenia 14.09.2006 (a)    
Benin 20.09.2006   Information contained in the confidential SPT visit report
Bolivia 23.05.2006   Correspondence
Annexes: 1-2-3-4
Bosnia and Herzegovina* 24.10.2008    
Brazil 12.01.2007   Correspondence
Cambodia 30.03.2007   Correspondence
Chile* 12.12.2008    
Croatia 25.04.2005    
Guatemala 09.06.2008   Correspondence - Not for public distribution
Kazakhstan* 22.10.2008    
Kyrgyzstan * 29.12.2008    
Lebanon* 22.12.2008    
Liberia 22.09.2004 (a)    
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia* 13.02.2009    
Mali 12.05.2005    
Mauritius 21.06.2005 (a)   Information contained in the confidential SPT visit report
Montenegro** 06.03.2009    
Nicaragua 25.02.2009    
Nigeria 27.07.09 (a)    
Paraguay 02.12.2005   Information contained in the confidential SPT visit report
Peru 14.09.2006   Correspondence
Romania** 02.07.2009    
Serbia 26.09.2006   Correspondence
Spain 04.04.2006   Correspondence
Switzerland* 24.09.2009    
Ukraine 19.09.2006    

*one year deadline to maintain, designate or establish NPMs not yet expired - article 17 of the OPCAT 

**Declaration made under article 24 of the OPCAT

 

 
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