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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2023): Enhancing the Rights of Defendants and Detainees with Intellectual and/or Psychosocial Disabilities "JUSTICE FOR ALL" - Comparative Report
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- Alternative measures to detention
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Detention: Social welfare institutions
- Detention: Transfers
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
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- Others
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- Report: Thematic Report
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- Feb 9, 2024
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ODIHR (2021) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
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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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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Jan 10, 2022
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FIDH, OMCT & AI (2021) The Fate of Thousands Hanging n the Balance - Afghanistan´s Fall into the Hands of the Taliban
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Thematic Report
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- Oct 7, 2021
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UNSRT (2017) Report to the GA, A/72/178
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: Thematic Report
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- Oct 1, 2021
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OMCT (2021) Extra-Custodial Use of Force Amounting to Torture and Ill-Treatment
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Thematic Report
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- Sep 21, 2021
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Redress (2021) The Forgotten Victims: Enforced Disappearance in Africa
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Thematic Report
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- Sep 13, 2021
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ODIHR (2021) Integrating the Issue of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Detention Monitoring
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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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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- Report: Thematic Report
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- Sep 10, 2021
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ODIHR (2020) Human Rights and Gender Equality during Public Emergencies
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Detention: Detention - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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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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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CEDAW (2021) Magdulein Abaida v Lybia, No. 130/2018, 18 February 2021
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CEDAW (2020) R.G. v Kyrgyzstan, No. 133/2018, 3 November 2020
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CEDAW (2020) Rahma Abdi-Osman v Switzerland, No. 122/2017, 6 July 2020
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CEDAW (2020), S.H. v Bosnia, No. 116/2017, 9 July 2020
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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New Zealand Human Rights Commission (2020) Time for a Paradigm Change: A Follow Up Review of Seclusion and Restraint Practices in New Zealand
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- 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 rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
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- Academia
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CRPD (2019), Z v Tanzania, No. 24/2014, 19 September 2019
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CRPD (2021) G.J.D. v Australia, No. 36/2016, 19 March 2021
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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- Sep 10, 2021
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CRPD (2020) N.N. v Germany, No. 29/2015, 28 August 2020
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Health-care settings
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- Jurisprudence: Discontinuance
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- Sep 10, 2021
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UNSRT (2020) Interim Report to the GA, A/75/179
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Sep 9, 2021
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UNSRT (2019) Interim report to the GA, A/74/148
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Sep 9, 2021
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Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (2021) Prisoners in a Situation of Vulnerability - Briefing Paper
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Prisons
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Sep 2, 2021
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CTI (2021) Positive Discipline and Alternatives to Corporal Punishment of Children
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Training / Activities
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- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Jul 2, 2021
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2021) Monitoring prison violence: Briefing Paper
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Date modified
- May 26, 2021
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Antigone (2021) Monitoring solitary confinement in prison: Briefing Paper
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Prisons
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Apr 16, 2021
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2021) Monitoring prison violence: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Apr 16, 2021
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Nowak M, Birk M & Monina G (2019) The United Nations Convention Against Torture and Its Optional Protocol: A Commentary
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- Academia
- Document Type
- Academic literature
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2021
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United Kingdom, Supreme Court (2019) R v TRA, No. EWCA Crim 2843, 13 November 2019
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- National bodies: Domestic courts
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- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2021
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WGAD (2006) Situation of Detainees at Guantánamo Bay, E/CN.4/2006/120
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Military facilities
- Detention: Transfers
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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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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- Civil society organisations
- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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SPT (2019) Reply to Country Visit Report: Portugal, CAT/OP/PRT/1/add1
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- National bodies: Government / Administration
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
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- Report: State Report / Reply
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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Czech Republic - NPM (2017) Report on systematic visits carried out by the public defender of rights 2016
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Transfers
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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CEDAW (2019) R.S.A.A. at al v Denmark, No. 86/2015, 15 January 2019
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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