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CAT (2012) General Comment No. 3 on the implementation of article 14 by States parties, CAT/C/GC/3
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- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- General Comment
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UNSRT (2008) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/7/3
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- Detention Monitoring
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2016) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/31/57
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- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Remedy & reparation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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CAT (2001) Radivoje Ristic v Yugoslavia, No. 113/1998, 11 May 2001
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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UNSRT (2007) Report to the GA, A/62/221
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- Alternative measures to detention
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2007) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/4/33
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- Detention Monitoring
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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IRCT (2014) In pursuit of justice: The importance of psychosocial support for torture victims participating in legal proceedings
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- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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CCPR (2017) X. v Sri Lanka, No. 2256/2013, 27 July 2017
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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Helsinki Hungarian Committee (2021) Complaint procedures and the right to information: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention: Prisons
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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CAT (2002) Hajrizi Dzemajl et al. v Yugoslavia, No. 161/2000, 21 November 2002
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the American University Washington College of Law (2013) Human Rights Brief - Litigation before the UN Committee against Torture: Strengthening this Important Tool against Torture
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (1999) Report to the GA, A/54/426
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2003) Report to the GA, A/58/120
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Remedy & reparation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2006) Report to the Commission on Human Rights, E/CN.4/2006/120
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Interrogations
- Detention: Military facilities
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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ACmHPR (2017) General Comment No. 4 on the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: The Right to Redress for Victims of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Punishment or Treatment (Article 5)
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- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
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- General Comment
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OMCT (2014) The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-Treatment in the Inter-American Human Rights System: A Handbook for Victims and their Advocates
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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APT & CTI (2017) Overview of anti-torture legislation in Latin America and the Caribbean
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
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- Report: Thematic Report
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ODIHR et al. (2018) Second OSCE Workshop on Rehabilitation for Victims of Torture
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- Remedy & reparation
- Training / Activities
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- National bodies: Government / Administration
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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IRCT (2009) Action against torture – A practical guide to the Istanbul Protocol – for lawyers
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Detention - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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OMCT (2014) The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-Treatment in the African Human Rights System: A Handbook for Victims and their Advocates
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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OMCT (2014) Seeking Remedies for Torture Victims: A Handbook on the Individual Complaints Procedures of the UN Treaty Bodies
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- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
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Fair Trials (2019) Rights Behind Bars: Access to Justice for Victims of Violent Crime Suffered in Detention
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Thematic Report
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ODIHR (2008) Countering Terrorism, Protecting Human Rights: A Manual
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Language
- English
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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IRCT (2017) Sexual Torture: An insight into needs-based rehabilitation - Data in the fight against impunity
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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IRCT (2013) Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors - A Resource Kit for Service Providers
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- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
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ODIHR et al. (2018) UNCAT Implementation Tool 5/2018: Providing Rehabilitation to Victims of Torture and Other Ill-treatment
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- Remedy & reparation
- Training / Activities
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- English
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- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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CAT (2012) Concluding Observations: Armenia, CAT/C/ARM/CO/3
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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UNSRT (2008) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/7/3
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Detention Monitoring
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2010) Interim Report to the GA, A/65/273
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2010) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/13/39/Add.5
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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