Expertise

Designing and implementing comprehensive support programmes for Ombudsman institutions, National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) and National Preventive Mechanisms against Torture (NPMs), detention visitors, civil society organisations, internal control bodies.

Designing and implementing comprehensive prison reform programmes to enhance human rights compliance, including normative work such as manuals of penitentiary law, guidebooks for detainees, preparation of legal and infra-legal norms, pilot projects to create areas of excellence, training of personnel involved in detention, rehabilitation or construction of infrastructures, etc.

Training and coaching detention monitors for all types of settings such as prisons, police stations, transportation of detainees, immigration detention facilities, psychiatric hospitals, closed centres for juveniles, social care places, forced return operations.

Assessing compliance of the management of detention facilities with funders’ expectations and applicable international rules.

Assisting in the design and management of detention facilities in line with Council of Europe standards and European state-of-the-art.

Advising on strategic litigation to improve detention conditions.

Assessing the human rights compliance of individual detention conditions.

Advising on human rights compliance of land, sea or air boarder management activities, including forced-return operations.

Advising on human rights in ombudsman and national human rights institutions.

Fundraising for a wide range of projects.