01.04.08
Events

OMCT African Regional Seminar: call for nominations

  • Event Date: 01.04.08
  • Event Time: 19:27:00
​An invitation to submitnominations to participate in OMCT’s AfricanRegional Seminar onaddressing the economic, social and cultural root causesof torture and other forms of violence, Maputo,Mozambique, 7-11 May 2008

The principal objective of the AfricanRegional Seminar is to help NGOs to prepare interventions (complaints) forsubmission to the UN or other organisations and/or alternative reports forsubmission to UN Treaty Bodies calling for practical action to stop or preventtorture and other forms of violence by dealing with their economic social andcultural root causes. An important objective for OMCT is to build partnershipswith NGOs to work together on these issues over the long term. The seminar, inparticular, will seek to:

  • help NGOs understand the various ways violations of economic, social and cultural rights are linked to violence and how acting on those root causes can reduce violence;
  • help NGOs to develop their own capacity to address the economic, social and cultural root causes of violence;
  • identify how action on the root causes of violence could relate to the specific circumstances of the participants’ countries;
  • discuss proposals for interventions (complaints) presented by participants;
  • discuss proposals from participants for including in alternative reports to UN Treaty bodies and in submissions to other institutions (for example the European Union) of information on the link between the denial of economic, social and cultural rights and torture along with recommendations for specific action; and
  • identify new and emerging issues for attention.