The conference was mutually organised by the Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD), the Public Workers Unions Confederation (KESK), the Union of Turkish Physicians (TTB) and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.
Various academic, human rights activists and jurists discussed issues from human rights in prison to prevention of torture, the need for a prisons regime that respected human rights, the rights to health of prisoners and convicts as well as issued such as the ban on enforced labour and isolation.
Two separate sessions in the Conference addressed the human rights of women and the protection and monitoring of children rights. (TK/II/YE)
