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CPT assesses isolation measures and cases of violence in Italian prisons
Anti-torture Committee (CPT)
21 January 2020
Strasbourg
In a new report on Italy, the anti-torture Committee (CPT) has recommended ending the court-imposed measure of solitary confinement (“isolamento diurno”) for prisoners serving life sentences. The CPT also calls on the authorities to provide inmates with a minimum range of purposeful activities as...
Violence against women and domestic violence in the Netherlands: a stronger gender perspective is needed
Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO)
20 January 2020
Strasbourg
In its first report on implementation by the Netherlands of the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (widely known as the “Istanbul Convention”), the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts (GREVIO) stresses the country’s long history of addressing...
