Noted Filipina doctor named to UN anti-torture body
By InterAksyon.com
October 26, 2012

A Filipina doctor from the University of the Philippines has been elected to be one of twelve new members of an international body that checks jail conditions of detainees in more than 60 countries.

Dr. June Pagaduan Lopez, a professor at the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of the Philippines-Manila, was selected to be part of the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT) from 2012 to 2016.

Lopez will serve as an expert in monitoring detention conditions around the world, said the Medical Action Group (MAG), a non-government organization which she helped establish.

Lopez’s election will “considerably strengthen the mandate of the SPT in torture prevention particularly in the field of mental health rehabilitation of torture survivors and their families,” the MAG said in a statement.

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