Human Rights in Prisons Discussed
The International Prisons Conference was held in Ankara during the weekend. Academics and human rights activists discussed women and children rights in prison, isolation of inmates, methods to prevent and monitor torture, the ban on enforced labor rights.
The International Prisons Conference where the human rights of prisoners and convicts were discussed was held in Ankara over the weekend of May 13-14.
The conference was mutually organised by the Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD), the Public Workers Unions Confederation (KESK), the Union of Turkish Physicians (TTB) and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.
Various academic, human rights activists and jurists discussed issues from human rights in prison to prevention of torture, the need for a prisons regime that respected human rights, the rights to health of prisoners and convicts as well as issued such as the ban on enforced labour and isolation.
Two separate sessions in the Conference addressed the human rights of women and the protection and monitoring of children rights. (TK/II/YE)
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