Rights areas:
The Agency will contribute to an event organised by The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights and The Academy of European Law entitled ‘The strengthening of the fundamental-rights based implementation of EU law in criminal matters through cooperation between the judiciary and NPMs’.
National Preventive Mechanisms, as required under the UN optional protocol to the Torture Convention, and their role in monitoring places of detention, will be the focus of the event in Vienna from 16 to 17 November.