National Committee for the Prevention of Torture
The National Committee for the Prevention of Torture was created by Law 26.827 in 2012 and became operational years later. Its purpose is to monitor, through regular visits without prior announcement, public and private places of detention and internment with respect to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, in order to prevent their occurrence. The Committee collects and systematizes information on the situation of persons deprived of their liberty throughout the national territory, and designs and recommends to the competent authorities at different levels of government actions and policies for the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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