OMCT African Regional Seminar: call for nominations
An invitation to submit
nominations to participate in OMCT’s African
Regional Seminar on
addressing the economic, social and cultural root causes
of torture and other forms of violence, Maputo,
Mozambique, 7-11 May 2008
The principal objective of the African
Regional Seminar is to help NGOs to prepare interventions (complaints) for
submission to the UN or other organisations and/or alternative reports for
submission to UN Treaty Bodies calling for practical action to stop or prevent
torture and other forms of violence by dealing with their economic social and
cultural root causes. An important objective for OMCT is to build partnerships
with NGOs to work together on these issues over the long term. The seminar, in
particular, will seek to:
- help NGOs understand the various
ways violations of economic, social and cultural rights are linked to
violence and how acting on those root causes can reduce violence;
- help NGOs to develop their own
capacity to address the economic, social and cultural root causes of
violence;
- identify how action on the root
causes of violence could relate to the specific circumstances of the
participants’ countries;
- discuss proposals for interventions (complaints)
presented by participants;
- discuss proposals from
participants for including in alternative reports to UN Treaty bodies and
in submissions to other institutions (for example the European Union) of
information on the link between the denial of economic, social and
cultural rights and torture along with recommendations for specific
action; and
- identify new and emerging issues
for attention.