Enhancing human rights protection for detained and sentenced persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Action, in general, aims to address important prison and police issues, especially the ones recorded in the CPT reports. Furthermore, it will provide support to the BiH authorities in ensuring compliance with the Council of Europe standards as necessary and assist them in advancing further towards the process of stabilisation and European integration. Specifically, the Action directly aspires to strengthen the capacities of staff to deal with persons deprived of liberty without infringing their human rights, design and provide meaningful activities for persons deprived of liberty, ensure that access to primary health care in prisons is equal to that provided in the community and support the treatment of mentally incapacitated offenders based on human rights standards.

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delegation of senior prison staff from the Slovenian Prison Administration shared good custodial practices in the two peer training sessions for court police and prison staff organised on 6-7 February 2019 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).

These peer training sessions, designed and delivered by local prison and police professionals, aligns BiH custodial practices with the best European practices and CPT (European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment) standards.

Slovenian colleagues particularly welcomed sharing their past experience with ensuring good order, dynamic security and proper functioning of prisons while adhering to the human rights standards. These are all very important issues in light of the European integration efforts that BiH authorities are undertaking. Slovenian colleagues were well positioned to offer their advice, bearing in mind the regional ties and similarity of the two systems of execution of criminal sanctions.

This regional co-operation activity is organised within the framework of the Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey Action - "Enhancing human rights protection for detained and sentenced persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina", co-funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe.

Mostar 6-7 February 2019