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Bulgarian psychiatric and social care institutions: ill-treatment, acute understaffing, mechanical restraint misuse
Anti-torture Committee (CPT)
2 December 2020
Strasbourg
In a new report the Council of Europe’s anti-torture Committee (CPT) has expressed grave concern that many of its long-standing recommendations concerning the treatment, conditions and legal safeguards offered to psychiatric patients and residents of social care institutions remain unimplemented....
Convention on access to official documents enters into force
Council of Europe
1 December 2020
Strasbourg
The Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents, the first binding international legal instrument to recognise a general right of access to official documents held by public authorities, entered into force today. The treaty, also known as the Tromsø Convention, after the city in...