by the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) on 3 June in Geneva. On 3 June, a representative of the CPT participated in a workshop in Kyiv on life imprisonment (organised by the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law of the Council of Europe together with the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine and the Kharkiv Human Rights Group). Finally, within the framework of the programme “Strengthening democratic reform in the southern Neighbourhood”, a member of the CPT attended a seminar on 1 December in Rabat aimed at presenting the key Human Rights Conventions of the Council of Europe (organised jointly by the Council of Europe and the Inter-Ministerial Human Rights Delegation of Morocco). Conference “The CPT at 25: taking stock and moving forward” 26. On 2 March 2015, the CPT organised a conference in Strasbourg to mark its 25th  anniversary. The conference brought together more than 200 professionals working in the field (such General Report of the CPT, 2015 ► Page 12 as lawyers, police and prison specialists and doctors) and academics, as well as representatives from national and international monitoring bodies, civil society and government officials from many Council of Europe member states. Opening statements were made by Koen Geens (Minister of Justice of Belgium, representing the Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe), Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni (Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe), Anne Brasseur (President of the Parliamentary Assembly) and Josep Casadevall (Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights). The keynote speech was given by Jean-Marie Delarue (former Controller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty, France). Five panels addressed the issues of ill-treatment and combating impunity in police and prison contexts, the provision of health care in prisons, juveniles in detention, solitary confinement, and standards on psychiatry. The speeches and concluding remarks have been published on the CPT’s website (http://www.cpt.coe.int/en/ conferences/cpt25.htm).