Platform of Organizations working with the UN Human Rights Mechanisms has organized a conference on the occasion of the publication of the Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer. Mr. Melcer addressed the conference via video message, pointing out in his report the unsatisfactory level of compliance with international standards, inadequate protection of victims of torture, as well as insufficient prevention in order to reduce cases of torture and abuse in the Republic of Serbia.
The report notes a number of problems that have been repeatedly pointed out to national authorities by other international bodies monitoring the extent to which Serbia fulfills its absolute international legal obligation to ban torture and other forms of abuse.
