| Seminar "Policing Hate Crime" | | Published 28.08.2006 | On 28 August 2006, Latvian Centre for Human Rights (LCHR) held a seminar "Policing Hate Crime" organized as a part of a three-year project on anti-discrimination capacity raising implemented by LCHR in partnership with Netherlands Helsinki Committee and funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MATRA funding). |
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| International conference "Independent Detention Monitoring of Closed Institutions in the Baltic States" | | Published 28.04.2006 | | On 27-28 April, 2006 the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and the Association for the Prevention of Torture are organising an international conference on independent detention monitoring of closed institutions (prisons, police cells, mental hospitals, etc.) in the Baltic States and the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on Torture. The conference is part of the European Commission funded project of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies “Monitoring Human Rights and Prevention of Torture in Closed institutions: prisons, police cells and mental health care institutions in Baltic countries.” |
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| Seminar "Models of Prison Employment" | | Published 21.04.2006 | | Examination of the current state of affairs with prison employment in the Latvian prison system, and examples of good practice in selected Latvian prisons. |
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| Study visit to the Netherlands on independent detention monitoring bodies | | Published 15.03.2006 | | On March 1-3 the Latvian Centre for Human Rights (LCHR) staff Anhelita Kamenska, Laila Grāvere, Ilvija Pūce and Centre for Public Policy researcher Andrejs Judins visited the Netherlands to study independent local and national supervisory bodies of police cells and prisons, police and prison complaints bodies and visit several closed facilities. |
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