National Agency for the Prevention of Torture

Organisation name in original language

Nationale Stelle zur Verhütung von Folter

Category of human rights structure

Statutory human rights body

Country

Germany

Website URL

https://www.nationale-stelle.de

Type(s) of body

Other

Address

Luisenstraße 7, 65185 Wiesbaden

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Legal source(s)

  • Article 3of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) (Fakultativprotokoll zum Übereinkommen gegen Folter und andere grausame, unmenschliche oder erniedrigende Behandlung oder Strafe)
  • of18 December 2002provides for the establishment of national mechanisms for the prevention of torture to supplement the work of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture. Germany ratified OPCAT on20 September 2006, making it national law.
  • Organisational decree of the Federal Ministry of Justice of20 November 2008(Federal GazetteNo 182,p. 4277;Sachstand) established the National Agency for the Prevention of Torture.

Human rights capacity support

Not applicable

Functions

  • Oversight
  • Collecting data on human rights violations
  • Other

Specific mandates

  • National preventive mechanism (NPM) under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT)

Structured cooperation with partners at national level

  • Working relationships with the most relevant departments of competent ministries and the most relevant parliamentary committees
  • No joint action plans or memoranda of understanding, as they would be incompatible with its independence
  • Dialogueand cooperation with non-governmental organisations (e.g. Amnesty International and the Association for the Prevention of Torture)

Structured cooperation with partners at international and EU level

  • Cooperation with the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and the Council of Europe’s European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  • Dialogue with partner organisations
  • Participation in international events within the national preventive mechanism network

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