Advocacy
DIGNITY and our partners work to:
- Advocate for changes to law, policy and practice at national and local levels in DIGNITY’s partner countries. Influence international norm-setting and the international legal framework, hereby strengthening the protecting against torture and other forms of ill-treatment.
- We cooperate with local, national and international civil society organizations as well as international and regional human rights institutions.
- DIGNITY staff are also members of the UN Sub-Committee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT).
DIGNITY’s current advocate priorities include:
- People within the criminal justice system enjoy increased humane treatment and conditions of detention as well as protection from arbitrary detention.
- More people in urban poverty enjoy community safety and security and are protected from state and non-state violence.
- People on the move enjoy increased protection from torture and refoulement and have access to health and rehabilitation.
- Victims of torture and other ill-treatment increasingly enjoy the right to redress and rehabilitation.