Violations of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Investigation and Prevention of Torture and Death in Custody

Monday 3 May 2010 09:00 to
Friday 7 May 2010 17:00

Location

Scandic Linkoping Vast, Rydsvagen, Linkoping, 584 32, Sweden

Participants

Prof. Bernice Elger, University of Geneva
Prof. Paola Gaeta, University of Geneva, CH & University of Florence, IT
Prof. Marcelo Aebi, University of Lausanne, CH
Dr. Bruno Aubusson Centre de recherche sociologique sur le Droit et les Institutions pénales, CNRS, FR

Prof. Andrew Coyle International Centre for Prison Studies, King's College London, UK
Prof. Manfred Nowak UN special rapporteur on torture Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Vienna, AT
Prof. Derrick Pounder Director of Centre for Forensic and Legal Medicine, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
Dr. Jean-Pierre Restellini Swiss Member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)
Prof. William Schabas Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE
Mr. Stephen Shaw CBE Prisons and Probation Ombudsman for England and Wales, UK
Prof. Adam Stapleton Human Rights lawyer
Prof. Theophilos Rifiotis Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, BR
Dr. Morris Tidball-Binz Forensic Coordinator, ICRC, CH
Prof. Duarte Nuno Vieira Director of the National Institute of Legal Medicine of Portugal, PT President of the International Academy of Legal Medicine, PT