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Participation of Committee members in other meetings
19.
During the period under consideration, Committee members participated in several
events, as follows:
(a)
Mr. Rodriguez-Pinzon delivered a virtual presentation at an event marking the
United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, hosted by the Executive
Commission for Victim Support of Mexico, on 26 June 2020;
(b)
Mr. Rodriguez-Pinzon participated in an online panel discussion on challenges
in the visibilization, registration and denouncing of torture and other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment, hosted by the national preventive mechanism of
Argentina, held on 15 October 2020;
(c)
Mr. Heller attended an online workshop on international humanitarian law and
United Nations treaty bodies organized by the Geneva Academy of International
Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, held on 17, 19 and 23 November 2020;
(d)
Mr. Modvig attended an online technical workshop for Commonwealth
Caribbean countries on sharing experiences of ratification of, legislative reform relating to,
and reporting under the Convention against Torture organized by the Convention against
Torture Initiative, held from 1 to 3 December 2020;
(e)
Mr. Rodriguez-Pinzon participated as speaker in a webinar for litigators on the
individual communications procedures of the treaty bodies, organized by the NGO Network
on Treaty Bodies (TB-Net), the Open Society Justice Initiative, the International Service for
Human Rights and Amnesty International, held on 4 December 2020;
(f)
Ms. Belmir made a presentation on the Convention against Torture and its
implications during a human rights capacity-building programme for judges, held by the
authorities of Morocco in mid-December 2020;
(g)
Mr. Rodriguez-Pinzon participated, online, in a dialogue on immigration
detention hosted by the Caribbean Centre for Human Rights in Trinidad and Tobago, held on
10 February 2021;
(h)
Mr. Modvig organized, jointly with Dignity – Institute against Torture, and
participated in, a webinar on monitoring health in places of detention, held on 13 January
2021;
(i)
Mr. Heller attended an online workshop on strengthening capacities to report
under the simplified reporting procedure organized by OHCHR for the Government of Belize,
held on 3 and 4 February 2021;
(j)
Mr. Rodriguez-Pinzon participated in a virtual panel entitled “Criminalizing
torture in Pakistan: the need for an effective legal framework”, hosted by the World
Organization against Torture and Justice Project Pakistan, held on 15 March 2021;
(k)
Ms. Racu attended a webinar, entitled “Protecting women from torture: the UN
Convention against Torture through a gendered lens”, organized by the World Organization
against Torture as part of its global week against torture held from 22 to 25 March 2021;
(l)
Liu Huawen attended, as a panellist, an Asia-Pacific peer-to-peer webinar on
the impact of COVID-19 on mental health, held on 31 March 2021. It was the first regional
meeting in the context of a series of webinars jointly organized by the informal working
group on COVID-19, the Human Rights Treaties Branch (capacity-building programme) and
the respective OHCHR regional offices.
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