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Omega & ISS (2016) Compliance through pain - Electric shock equipment in South African prisons
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
- Detention: Prisons
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Policy Paper/Strategies
- Date modified
- Dec 1, 2021
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Omega & ISS (2016) Manufacturing torture? South Africa’s trade in electric shock equipment
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Civil society organisations
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- Policy Paper/Strategies
- Date modified
- Dec 1, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Bariza Zaier v Algeria, No. 2026/2011, 29 October 2014
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Tahar Ammari v Algeria, No. 2098/2011, 30 October 2014
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Halima Louddi v Algeria, No. 2117/2011, 30 October 2014
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Kamela Allioua and Fatima Zohra Kerouane v Algeria, No. 2132/2012, 30 October 2014
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Aïcha Dehimi and Noura Ayache v Algeria, No. 2086/2011, 30 October 2014
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Boughera Kroumi v Algeria, No. 2083/2011, 30 October 2014
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2017) Malika El Boathi v Algeria, No. 2259/2013, 17 March 2017
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2017) Lounis Khelifati v Algeria, No. 2267/2013, 28 July 2017
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2018) Arab Millis v Algeria, No. 2398/2014, 6 April 2018
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2017) Abdelkader Boudjema v Algeria, No. 2283/2013, 30 October 2017
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Military facilities
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2020) Malika Bendjael and Merouane Bendjael v Algeria, No. 2893/2016, 27 March 2020
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2020) Aïcha Habouchi v Algeria, No. 2819/2016, 27 March 2020
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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Redress (2021) Practice Note: Strategic Litigation of Enforced Disappearance in Africa
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
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- Civil society organisations
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 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
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 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
- Document Type
- 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
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- 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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CRC (2021) R.H.M. v Denmark, No. 83/2019, 4 February 2021
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CCPR (2020) Fatima Rsiwi v Algeria, No. 2843/2016, 19 October 2020
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Military facilities
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 9, 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
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2021
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CRC (2020) Y.F. v Panama, No. 48/2018, 03 Feb 2020
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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CRC (2019) J.G. v Switzerland, No. 47/2018, 28 June 2019
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Discontinuance
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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ACHPR (2012) Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Document Type
- Inquiry Procedure
- Date modified
- Jan 5, 2021
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ECtHR (2012) Lahoucine El Haski v Belgium, No. 649/08, 4 September 2012
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- Theme
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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- Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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CRPD (2018) Y v United Republic of Tanzania 2014, No. 23/2014, 31 August 2018
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Dec 17, 2020
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CRPD (2017) X v United Republic of Tanzania, No. 22/2014, 18 August 2017
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Dec 17, 2020
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CRPD (2017) O.O.J. v Sweden, No. 28/2015, 18 August 2017
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date modified
- Dec 17, 2020
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CEDAW (2018) H.D. v Denmark, No. 76/2014, 9 July 2018
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date modified
- Dec 17, 2020
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