The Vice Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL), Victor Idrissa Lansana is in Copenhagen, Denmark on the invitation of the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions for the 14th International Conference of National Human Rights Institutions with the subject, “Torture and other ill-treatment: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions.”

The Vice Chairperson has been actively involved throughout the various sessions of this ongoing conference and was selected to act as a Working Group repertoire in which he presented to the plenary on behalf of his group in relation to the subject, “Practical Perspectives on the work of NHRIs: Using NHRIs’ mandates and functions to protect at-risk persons and marginalized groups from torture and other ill-treatment”.

In one of his interventions, the Vice Chairperson called on NHRIs “to move beyond the traditional role of monitoring and take the next step by dealing decisively with findings from monitoring reports and holding perpetrators of torture accountable”.

The conference is attended by members of NHRIs from across the world.