Prevention of Torture Department

The department specifically aims at challenging impunity and promoting accountability in torture and ill-treatment in Nepal in general and prevention of torture common in government detention facilities in particular.
It advocates for the application of international and regional standards prohibiting torture and effective implementation of and reforms on existing legislation on torture. The department carries out following activities:
  • Preventing torture by regular visiting of places of detention
  • Legal intervention in the cases of torture
  • Sensitize Criminal Justice Stakeholders
  • Capacity building, institutionalizing, human rights training to police, judges, public prosecutors of major stakeholders
  • Criminalization of torture and monitoring of the implementation of the  torture act
  • Legal, medical and psychosocial support to torture victims
  • Lobby for the ratification of optional protocol to convention against torture (OPCAT)
  • Research on the impact of torture on detainees
  • Case Communications national and international bodies
A recent evaluation report from an independent evaluator has recognized AF's efforts to prevent torture in Nepal as a model intervention strategy. Click "Mid-Term Evaluation Report" to access to the full-text.