National Preventive Mechanism
• Human rights requirements regarding data and statistics about the living
situation of persons with disabilities,
• Specially secured cells in correctional institutions,
• Need for reform in respect of occupational therapy workshops,
• NPM mandate for (forced) returns and turning away refugees by air
transportation,
• Psychological supervision among the police,
• Legal protection in the event of age-atypical measures that restrict
freedom of children and youths with disabilities (is currently still being
worked on),
• Structurally separate toilets in detention facilities at police stations (is
currently still being worked on).
The Human Rights Advisory Council initiated the establishment of the
following working groups:
• “Uniform human rights standards and monitoring criteria for major
police operations” (is currently still being worked on),
• “Work methodology of the Human Rights Advisory Council” (is currently
still being worked on).
The statement regarding “Need for reform in respect of occupational therapy
workshops” was published in the full text library of BIDOK (Disability
Inclusion Documentation), a project of the Institute of Education at the
University of Innsbruck.
The publication of the full text of statements by the Human Rights Advisory
Council, as suggested by itself and agreed by the NPM, is largely available
on the AOB website.
1.8 Further activities
1.8.1 Seminars, workshops, publications
In order to improve the collaboration with the heads of the NPM commissions,
on-site seminars for the respective regional commissions, were carried out in
order to improve the specific sharing of experiences. In a two-day workshop
based on the fundamental question “What does prevention mean?” (headed
by Council of Europe expert Markus Jaeger), significant questions regarding
setting priorities and the professionalisation in methodological practice
(headed by Barbara Jauk from the NGO Gewaltschutzzentrum Styria)
and member of the Human Rights Advisory Council) were dealt with and
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