Back Open call for expressions of interest to enlarge the pool of experts to assist CPT delegations on visits

The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) is currently preparing a list of potential Experts to assist during its visits to places of deprivation of liberty.
Open call for expressions of interest to enlarge the pool of experts to assist CPT delegations on visits

The CPT is looking for Experts with recognised competence in one or more of the following fields of activities, preferably with proven experience in visiting places of deprivation of liberty:

  1. Police matters: law enforcement official, specialised judge, prosecutor or other professional with proven experience in the investigation of cases of police ill-treatment/misconduct, academic specialised in police matters, etc.;
  2. Prison issues: academic specialised in prison matters, prison governor, prison officer, specialised judge, prosecutor or other professional supervising prisons, etc.;
  3. Immigration detention: academic or specialised judge or other legal professional dealing with asylum/immigration issues, head of an immigration detention centre, etc.;
  4. Juvenile detention: academic or specialised judge or other legal professional in child-related issues, director or staff member of a juvenile institution, etc.;
  5. Health-care issues: health-care professional (such as a general practitioner, prison doctor, forensic doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist or nurse) with extensive experience in providing health care to persons held in police custody, immigration detention, prisons, psychiatric hospitals or social care institutions, etc.
  6. Human rights experts with experience in working with a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) established under the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture (OPCAT).

Applications should be submitted by 16 September 2019.

This call for expressions of interest is now closed.

26/07/2019
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