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On September 10th 2025 we held an ImpleMéndez Workshop during the Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System conference at Cardiff University in the UK. The conference was organized by Dr Roxanna Dehaghani (Cardiff, UK), Dr Samantha Fairclough (Birmingham, UK), and Professor Harriet Pierpoint (South Wales, UK) and funded by Cardiff Centre for Law and Society, […]

On Friday 3rd October 2025, an important ImpleMéndez activity took place at the University of Sarajevo, attended both online and in person by 30 of our members from over 10 countries in the region, and also attended by Profs Dave Walsh and Ray Bull from the UK. During the morning presentations were delivered from various

We are pleased to share that registration is now open for the 3rd Annual Child Sexual Abuse Reduction Research Network (CSARRN) Conference, to be held on December 4–5, 2025, at the University of Valencia. The scientific program has now been published and we are delighted that the abstracts submitted by ImpleMéndez members Ray Bull, Hanna

COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action News introduces this week our Action – read more about it in here.

General Assembly report by UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Alice Edwards is now public. The report is available for free download in all UN languages and provides annual overview of trends and developments in the global struggle to end torture and other ill-treatment.

Our Action member Prof. Dobrinka Chankova just received the “best presenter” award for her talk “Does Implementing Méndez Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering Serve Victims of Crime?” at the 17th Global Conference on Business and Social Sciences in Bali, Indonesia. During this talk Dobrinka raised awareness for the importance of the

Over the spring and summer 2025, a crucial conversation about the future of justice in Mexico brought together legal professionals, academics, and students from across the nation and beyond. This online seminar, titled “Implementation of the Méndez Principles in Mexico”, was more than a series of lectures—it was a foundational event that brought together leading

On August 4-5 2025 over 30 members of the ImpleMéndez project (COST Action 22128) will meet in Vilnius University to work on our ongoing mission to support the implementation of the Méndez Principles on Effective Interviewing and Information-Gathering. We will reflect different activities done so far and also the activities that will be conducted in

On July 10th 2025, members of the ImpleMendéz team delivered a specialised workshop in Liverpool for professionals working with victims of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking. The session focused on best practices when interviewing and communicating with victims of trafficking. Organised in collaboration with the Modern Slavery and Immigration Crime Unit and our COST Action,

Submit your paper to Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling special issue titled “Implementing the Méndez Principles: Cultural differences within effective interviewing and investigative practices” (deadline 30.12.2025). Read more from here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/15444767/call-for-papers