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CONSULTANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
** Global Guide on Protection of Children against Torture**
Created in 1985, and with over 200-member organisations in its SOS-Torture Network, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is today the largest international coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) fighting against torture, summary executions, forced disappearances and all other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment. OMCT’s International Secretariat is based in Geneva and it has offices in Brussels and Tunis.
The OMCT, as the principal civil society coalition against torture, has developed its child rights specialized expertise through a designated Child Protection Against Torture Programme over the past three decades. Our focus on the protection of children from torture seeks to link child rights and anti-torture actors. We work through our SOS-Torture Network and support the members to integrate a child rights perspective in their work, strengthen their capacities and reach, including through enabling regular civil society access to monitor juvenile detention facilities. We engage authorities on legal and policy reforms to prevent torture, and pursue accountability for child victims of torture and we have in particular developed a specific expertise in monitoring places of detention where children are detained.
OBJECTIVE OF THE CONSULTANCY
The OMCT seeks to contract a Consultant to conduct research and collect information on the protection of children against torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment, and to draft a Global Guide on Protection of Children Against Torture for publication.
What we are looking for:
The OMCT seeks to contract a Consultant to conduct in depth research and collect information on the protection of children against torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment with the aim to produce a Global Guide on Protection of Children Against Torture for publication. The objective of the Global Guide is to mobilise the OMCT SOS -Torture Network and other civil society organisations as well as juvenile justice professionals, UN human rights bodies and States’ authorities to get involved in the protection of children who are deprived of liberty from torture. The Guide will seek to:
METHODOLOGY
The consultant will, as part of the research methodology, organise and conduct with support of the OMCT team three online regional consultations with experts and SOS-Torture Network members in order to collect relevant information, as well as one global expert meeting in order to share and exchange on good practices against torture and ill-treatment of children and the key policy recommendations that will be identified in the Global Guide.
BACKGROUND OF THE CONSULTANCY
The UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, launched in 2019, estimates that there are currently 1.5 million children deprived of liberty, who are in serious risk of being tortured or otherwise ill-treated. Torture, and other inhuman and degrading treatment against children deprived of liberty remains largely unacknowledged and hidden, in many cases accepted, or tolerated.
Over the past three decades, we have worked locally and globally to develop a multi-tiered strategy to ensure children their right to protection against torture and abuse. While the ultimate goal of the OMCT is to eradicate torture and notably promote alternative measures to deprivation of liberty, we have observed throughout our work that there are practices and safeguards that could prevent torture and other ill-treatment of children while deprived of liberty.
The Global Guide aims at presenting models of initiatives that can help reduce cases of torture of children during deprivation of liberty developed against the backdrop of an analyses of how children are affected by torture and a discussion of the legal challenges related to their protection.
RESPONSABILITIES OF THE CONSULTANT
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE OMCT
KEY DELIVERABLES
DURATION AND BUDGET OF THE CONSULTANCY
The Consultancy’s start date is 1st December 2020 in order to deliver the report on the research by 1st May 2020 at the latest.
The maximum available budget for this contract is US Dollars 27.000. The most competitive consultancy proposals will be those with the highest quality proposal that are budgeted within.
LOCATION OF WORK AND SUPERVISION
The consultancy can be home-based with possibility to spend time for specific intervals at the International Secretariat of the OMCT, located in Geneva, Switzerland. It includes the mandatory attendance of the three online regional consultations and of the final expert consultation, and any other meeting that may be required to accomplish the consultants’ responsibilities. The Consultant will work under the supervision of and in close collaboration with the OMCT Human Rights Adviser of the Child Protection against Torture Programme, and in close collaboration with OMCT SOS-Torture Network members.
TO BE CONSIDERED ELIGIBLE, CANDIATES MUST POSSSES THE FOLLOWING:
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
Applications for this consultancy should be sent by 10 November 2020. Interested applicants must submit a CV, an Expression of Interest detailing the proposed methodology, time frame, and fee (maximum 3 pages), and the full names and contact details of two relevant references, to applications@omct.org.
Applications can be submitted in either French or English. Please use “Global Guide Children” as the subject of your email.
Please appreciate that due to the volume of applications, only short-listed candidates will be contacted. We cannot answer phone enquiries. Thank you for your understanding.
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