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Publications and media relations
24.
Authorisation by States of the publication of
CPT visit reports remains the norm, and this
authorisation now tends to be given more quickly than
in the past. During the last twelve months, reports on
thirteen visits have been published by the Committee,
at the request of the governments concerned. These
publications include, for the first time, reports on visits
to Azerbaijan and Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the
time of writing, 146 of the 187 visit reports so far
drawn up have been placed in the public domain. A
State-by-State table showing the current situation is set
out in Appendix 4.
25.
Reference has been made in previous General
Reports to the “information pack”, containing various
materials describing the CPT’s modus operandi and the
standards it has developed. Further translations and
updates of the pack have been produced during the last
twelve months; it is currently available in seventeen
languages. The pack is posted in all of those languages
on the CPT’s website, and printed copies can be
obtained from the Committee’s Secretariat.
Further, a new edition of the CD-ROM
containing the whole of the CPT’s website will be
issued in October 2005.
26.
With a view to assisting the media when
reporting on the CPT’s work, a videokit has been
produced by the Council of Europe’s Directorate of
Communication and Research (DCR). Primarily aimed
at TV journalists, it contains a series of reconstructions
of events linked to the Committee’s activities. Copies
of the videokit in BETA format are available from the
DCR; copies in VHS and DVD format (suitable for
human rights training) can be obtained from the CPT’s
Secretariat.
CPT: 15TH GENERAL REPORT