Dr. Mulgrew participates in the Office of the Inspector of Prisons’ international conference

Dec 11 2023 Posted: 09:22 GMT

On 6 December 2023, Dr. Mulgrew attended the timely international conference hosted by the Office of the Inspector of Prisons on Developing a Criminal Justice National Preventive Mechanism in Ireland

Dr. Mulgrew, along with LLM students from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, participated in roundtable discussions about the challenges and opportunities for developing a criminal justice National Preventive Mechanism in Ireland under the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture. 

The key note speech was delivered by Judge Mykola Gnatovskyy (ECtHR). Insights and views were also shared by panellists from the UK’s NPM, the UN Sub-Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, Irish Penal Reform Trust, the Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland, the Association for the Prevention of Torture and the Council of Europe.

Dr. Mulgrew is an Expert Panel Member for the Office of the Inspector of Prisons.

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