On 22 June 2018, the Council of Europe´s anti-torture committee (CPT) published a new factsheet on transport of detainees. During its fact-finding missions, CPT delegations have inspected vehicles intended for the transport of detainees, such as road and railway vehicles. Persons deprived of their liberty are transferred from a place of detention to another place e.g. from a police station to a prison, from a prison to another prison, a courthouse or a hospital, or from a border point of entry to an immigration detention centre. The CPT frequently found that conditions were substandard or that basic safety requirements were not being met. The Committee has also come across practices which called for criticism e.g. overreliance on means of restraint and unnecessarily long periods of confinement in prisoner transport vehicles. The purpose of this new factsheet is to share the CPT’s main standards on this subject, developed over several decades, to help member states to carry out these transfers in a humane, secure and safe manner. The factsheet is prepared by the CPT’s Secretariat and covers the following issues: material conditions, safety measures, security measures and health issues.
Newsletter - July 2017
Mandat
La Division des migrations et des réfugiés (DMR) a été créée le 1er février 2025 au sein de la Direction Générale Droits humains et Etat de droit (DG1) pour assurer le suivi de l'action de l'ancien Représentant spécial du Secrétaire général sur les migrations et les réfugiés. Son mandat consiste notamment à proposer une assistance et un soutien aux Etats membres, en particulier par le biais du Réseau de correspondants sur les migrations, à rechercher, collecter et analyser des informations sur la situation des droits de l'homme des migrants et des réfugiés, ainsi qu'à compléter et coordonner les activités d'autres organes compétents du Conseil de l'Europe et notre action avec d'autres partenaires internationaux, notamment le HCR, l'OIM, l'UE et ses agences spécialisées, et d'autres parties prenantes nationales, régionales et internationales, y compris des organisations de la société civile. La DMR représente le Conseil de l'Europe au sein du Comité de sélection du Prix Nansen pour les réfugiés du HCR, ainsi que dans les Forums consultatifs de Frontex et de l'EUAA.
- Mission to Serbia and the transit zones in Hungary, and synergies with CoE standard-setting bodies
- PACE: Sweden’s Justice and Migration Minister and Mayor of Athens take part in the Migration Day debate
- Commissioner: Issue paper on family reunification, visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina and PACE debate
- Commissioner: Issue paper on family reunification, visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina and PACE debate
- CPT visited Italy to examine the situation of persons in immigration detention
- Conference on smuggling of migrants
- Two rulings in deportation cases
- Italy contributes € 3 million to the CEB’s Migrant and Refugee Fund
- The linguistic integration of adult migrants: lessons from research
- Administrative detention of migrants
- Migrants and Disaster Risk Reduction