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United Kingdom, House of Lords (2005) A et al v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, UKHL 71, 8 December 2005
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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- National bodies: Domestic courts
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 7, 2016
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CAT (2004) Inquiry procedure: The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, A5944 (§156-240)
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Inquiry Procedure
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- Apr 20, 2017
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CCPR (2013) Svetlana Zhuk v Belarus, No. 1910/2009, 30 October 2013
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Evidence extracted by torture
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 13, 2017
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CAT (1990) Report of the Human Rights Committee
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Oct 5, 2018
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IRCT (2013) Recognising victims of torture in national asylum procedures – A comparative overview of early identification of victims and their access to medico-legal reports in asylum-receiving countries
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Immigration detention
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 11, 2019
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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)
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Jul 19, 2019
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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 added
- Sep 13, 2019
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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 added
- Nov 13, 2019
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ODIHR (2018) Opinion on Definition of Torture and its Absolute Prohibition in Polish Legislation
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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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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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Nov 29, 2019
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OSCE (2005) Human Rights and Law Enforcement - Booklet of Human Rights for Police
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Other OSCE Offices
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Jul 31, 2020
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SPT(2019) Country Visit Report: Spain, CAT/OP/ESP/1
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
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- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 18, 2020
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Norway - NPM (2020) Use of Restraint Beds in Norwegian Prisons
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
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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 added
- Sep 17, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Vladimir Neklyaev v Belarus, No. 2383/2014, 26 July 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 19, 2020
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CCPR (2020) Gennady Yakovitsky and AleksandraYakovitskaya v Belarus, No. 2789/2016, 12 March 2020
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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CEDAW (2020) S.F.M. v Spain, No. 138/2018, 28 February 2020
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- 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 added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CEDAW (2019) X. and Y. v Russian Federation, No. 100/2016, 16 July 2019
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- Theme
- 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 added
- Nov 24, 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 added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CEDAW (2017) S.J.A. v Denmark, No. 79/2014, 6 November 2017
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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 added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2017) O.G. v Russian Federation, No. 91/2015, 6 November 2017
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- Theme
- 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 added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2015) M.C. v Denmark, No. 56/2013, 9 November 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- 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 added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2014) Angela González Carreño v Spain, No. 47/2012, 16 July 2014
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- Theme
- 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 added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2014) N. v Netherlands, No. 39/2012, 17 February 2014
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2011) Inga Abramova v Belraus, No. 23/2009, 25 July 2011
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- 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 added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2014) Y.C. v Denmark, No. 59/2013, 24 October 2014
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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 added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2015) Y.W. v Denmark, No. 51 2013, 2 March 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2016) X. v Austria, No. 67/2014, 11 July 2016
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2007) N.S.F. v the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, No. 10/2005, 30 May 2007
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2013) M.N.N. v Denmark, No. 33/2011, 15 July 2013
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2013) M.E.N. v Denmark, No.35/2011, 6 October 2011
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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