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The SPT Regional Teams are made up of SPT members; each team has a Head who co-ordinates the activities in the region.

Country responsibilities are distributed as follows:

Africa
NameCountries assigned
Abdallah Ounnir (Head)South Africa, Tunisia, Gabon, Nigeria, Guinea-Bissau, Cameroon
Bhooshun DomahBurkina Faso, RCA, Mozambique, Sierra Leone
Daniel FinkBurundi, Benin, Senegal, Cabo Verde, Zambia
Hamet DiakhateMali, Niger, DRC, Madagascar, Guinee, Côte d'Ivoire
Hamida DridiMorocco, Mauritania, Mauritius, Togo
Julia KozmaRwanda, Ghana, Liberia, South Sudan, Angola
Americas
NameCountries assigned
Juan Pablo VegasBrazil, Chile, Nicaragua
Marie BrasholtBolivia, Costa Rica, Uruguay
Andrea CasamentoEcuador, Panamá, Paraguay
Carmen Comas-Mata MiraArgentina, Belize, Mexico, Venezuela
Marco Feoli (Head)Guatemala, Honduras, Peru
Asia Pacific
NameCountries assigned
Victor ZahariaLebanon, Philippines, State of Palestine
Shujune MuhammadAfghanistan, Australia, New Zealand, Nauru
Nika Kvaratskheklia (Head)Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia
Jakub CzepekCambodia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste
Europe
NameCountries assigned
Uju AgomohDenmark, Finland, Netherlands, Ireland
Vasiliki Artinopoulou (Head)Czechia, Italy, Liechtenstein, Malta, Norway, Slovakia
Massimiliano BagagliniCyprus, Georgia, Lithuania, Serbia
Suzanne JabbourFrance, Luxembourg, Turkey, Switzerland
Andrew Christoffel NissenMoldova, United Kingdom, Poland
Zdenka PerovicAlbania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia
Maria Luisa RomeroAustria, Germany, Slovenia, Spain
Elīna ŠteinerteArmenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Iceland, Montenegro
Anica TomsicGreece, Hungary, Latvia, Ukraine, Belgium
Martin ZinklerEstonia, Portugal, Romania, Sweden

Signatories are in italics

To contact the members of the SPT Regional Teams, please email ohchr-opcat@un.org