Sentence examples for opcat from inspiring English sources

The federal government has also said it is on the cusp of a decision about ratifying the UN Optional Protocol on the Convention Against Torture (Opcat).

This has centred on the endorsement of a joint statement calling for the government to uphold a bipartisan commitment to the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (Opcat).

The Opcat requires state parties to set up an independent monitoring body that has unrestricted access to all places of detention, including prisons, police lockups, juvenile detention centres, immigration detention facilities, locked psychiatric facilities and secure disability and aged care facilities.

Triggs said Australia should, as a matter of priority, ratify the optional protocol to the convention against torture, known as Opcat.

We need the Opcat, we need it now.

There is no argument of any substance against the Opcat.

A majority of members of the human rights council called on Australia to ratify the optional protocol to the convention against torture (Opcat).

Rodney Dillon, an Indigenous rights activist with Amnesty, called on the Australian government to sign up to the UN's optional protocol to the convention against torture (Opcat) to ensure investigators from outside the country could oversee such detention.

The Opcat was passed by the UN's general assembly in 2002 and came into force globally in 2006.

Successive Australian governments have consistently said they were actively considering ratifying the Opcat, but none has yet done it.

The joint standing committee on treaties in 2009 signed Australia up to the Opcat, which parliament has since failed to ratify.