Today is the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.

In this month’s blog, the UK NPM details what constitutes torture, and what is being done in the UK and around the world to prevent it.

Find out more: nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/news/blog-in...

#humanrights #OPCAT

Head of the UK NPM Sam Gluckstein sends thanks from Strasbourg to all the hundreds of volunteers among the NPM's 3,500 visitors, monitors and inspectors.

Making sure he is heard over the traffic, a happy Volunteers Week from Sam and all of us at the NPM!

Hearing from @naomilong.bsky.social, Minister of Justice Northern Ireland, "NPM has expertise and influence. I hope we can work together to do the work needed in Northern Ireland."

Issues: high remand pop. & need for community support in rehabilitation to reduce reoffending.

#UKNPM2025 #OPCAT

Hearing from Cabinet Secretary @angelaconstance.bsky.social at the #UKNPM2025 annual conference, "legally and morally we need to uphold the rights of all those held in custody."

Two key issues: "too high" prison population, and deaths in custody.

#OPCAT #humanrights

UK NPM Chair Sherry Ralph opens the #UKNPM2025 Annual Conference in Edinburgh today, "there's no doubt that times are bleak for those deprived of their liberty in the UK today... at times the list of issues feels endless. Dig dip, be bold, keep making recommendations. Change can come." #OPCAT

From everyone at the NPM team, we wish you a very joyful holiday season with plenty of rest, warmth and laughter! We're leaving the office for the year now and will see you in January!

15th UK NPM annual report published today!

21 NPM bodies publish hundreds of reports each year on visits and research. This report outlines commonalities between them to point to systemic issues in settings of deprivation of liberty across the UK

nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/document/fif...

2023-24 annual report published today
International attention focused on prisons, youth offender institutions & immigration detention
Our report also discusses settings like inpatient mental health, secure accommodation for children, police & court custody
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Our copies of the Guidance on the Environmental Conditions of Detention arrived today!
All NPM monitors can look out for their copies in the new year - raising awareness of how environmental conditions of places of detention may contribute to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or torture

The UK National Preventive Mechanism has joined NPMs from 45 other countries to contribute to the development of a global report on women in prison:
nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/news/uk-npm-...