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Dr. Mulgrew and Dr. O’Rourke participated in the launch of the two year EU funded, and Council of Europe supported project, ‘Technical support for more effective and resilient National Preventative Mechanisms’ in Dublin (22 October)

The project was launched by officials from the Council of Europe’s Transversal Challenges and Multilateral Projects Division, the European Union’s Directorate General for Structure Reform, the Office of the Inspector of Prisons and the Cypriot Ombudsman Office.

Panel discussions were led by the Director of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, the Executive Director of the Legal and Compliance Unit of An Garda Síochána, the head of the UK National Preventative Mechanism and the Irish Representative of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture.

The launch event ‘brought together over 60 stakeholders, including policymakers, representatives from state institutions and civil society, international experts, and a European Commission representative in Ireland. Participants engaged in discussions aimed at fostering collaboration, exchanging innovative ideas, and sharing promising practices to enhance the effectiveness of NPMs’.