Suzanne Jabbour, IRCT President and Center Director at Restart, Lebanon, welcomed the participants and speakers coming from civil society, governments and academia. Finally, he emphasised the significance of the General Comment as an advocacy tool, for example: • As a relevant component of policy, legislative or institutional reform, thereby ensuring its implementation at the national level • Using paragraphs 45 and 46 of the General Comment as a non-exhaustive checklist of issues that the Committee against Torture and the Special Rapporteur should in future report at the international level • Raising awareness through the media of the importance of the right to rehabilitation • Developing capacity of legal and health professionals to understand the scope of the right to rehabilitation, through collaborating on training and research projects • Conducting litigation with collaboration between rehabilitation centres, lawyers and other NGOs Right to Rehabilitation for Torture Victims, Beirut, Lebanon – 27/28 June 2013 3