Acronyms

  • CAT - United Nations Convention Against Torture
  • CISST - Civil Society in the Penal System
  • CPT - European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  • EU - European Union
  • DFR - Federal Republic of Germany
  • RDA - German Democratic Republic
  • GG-BO - Prisoners’ Union - National Federation (Gefangener Gewerkschaft - Bundesweite Organisation)
  • HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus
  • ICPR - Institute for Criminal Policy Research
  • LGBTI - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex persons
  • MNP - National Preventive Mechanism
  • OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • OHCHR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • OPCAT - Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  • PPP - Private-Public Partnership
  • SPACE - Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics
  • SPT - Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
  • TCPS - Turkey’s Center for Prison Studies (Centre turc d’études sur la prison)
  • WHO - World Health Organisation