{"id":6180,"date":"2017-06-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.conectas.org.inf.br\/wp\/noticias\/international-day-in-support-of-victims-of-torture-2\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T14:50:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:50:58","slug":"international-day-in-support-of-victims-of-torture-2","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/international-day-in-support-of-victims-of-torture-2\/","title":"International Day in Support of Victims of Torture","content":"

In commemoration of International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on June 26, the CNPCT (National Committee to Combat and Prevent Torture) will hold a special event on the 26th and 27th, after its 14th Ordinary Meeting, to debate torture from various perspectives and approaches.<\/p>\n

On the first day of the event, the seminar \u201cChallenges to formulating a cross-cutting policy to combat and prevent torture\u201d will be staged to debate torture in Brazil from the perspective of gender, mental health and race. The first day will also see the release of the Annual Report 2016-2017 of the National Mechanism to Combat and Prevent Torture.<\/p>\n

The second day of the event will be dedicated to the presentation and discussion of recent publications on the topic, one of which is \u201cShielded Torture – How the institutions of the justice system perpetuate violence in custody hearings\u201d.\u00a0Published in February by Conectas Human Rights<\/u><\/a>, the study shows how judges, prosecutors and public defenders overlook, trivialize and even rationalize episodes of police violence reported by detainees in hearings with a judge within 24 hours of their arrest. The presentation of the research will be followed by the debate panel \u201cCustody Hearings as an Instrument to Combat Torture\u201d.<\/p>\n

Participating in the debates during the two-day event will be representatives of organizations such as CNDH (National Human Rights Council), CNBB (National Council of Brazilian Bishops), University of Bras\u00edlia, Ipea (Applied Economic Research Institute), Ministry of Human Rights, PFDC (Attorney General\u2019s Office for the Rights of the Citizen), CNJ (National Justice Council), IBCCRIM (Brazilian Criminal Sciences Institute), the Senate Human Rights Committee and others. The event is open to the public.\u00a0See the complete program here<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Event<\/strong><\/p>\n