Chairperson(s): Paul Cosyns (Edegem, Belgium) 08.30 - 10.00, Holiday Inn - Room 4Z

Objective: In the context of its long-standing collaboration with the Council of Europe, the AEP periodically organises Workshops dealing with the human rights and dignity of psychiatric patients.

Methods: The next AEP Human Rights Workshop will deal with "The role of psychiatrists in ensuring the respect of the rights of persons deprived of their liberty".

Results: The Workshop will be chaired by Prof. Paul Cosyns (University of Antwerp). The speakers will specifically focus on the need for European psychiatrists to actively participate in the supervision of the human fights of persons deprived of their liberty. Dr. GErard Niveau (University Institute of Forensic Medicine, Geneva) will present the action of the European Court of Human Rights in promoting the respect of the fights of mentally disabled persons. He will also introduce the most important legal cases of the European Court in the domain of psychiatry. Dr. Cyrille Orizet (European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, Council of Europe) will present, in the name of the Council of Europe, the concrete role of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT). He wiil explain which legal standards were introduced by the CPT in the domain of psychiatry and provide some concrete examples of the results which were obtained on the field, following the visits of the CPT. Dr. Marianne Kastrup (Centre of Transcultural Psychiatry of Copenhagen) will then share her concrete experience, as a former expert in the CPT, of psychiatric input and assistance in ensuring that the rights of persons deprived of their liberty are not violated.

Conclusion: A discussion with the participants will close the Symposium.