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CAT (2012) A. A. v Denmark, No. 412/2010, 13 November 2012
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 3, 2017
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CAT (2014) Sergei Kirsanov v Russian Federation, No. 478/2011, 14 May 2014
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- Theme
- 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
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 18, 2017
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CAT (2016) B. R. v Italy, No. 598/2014, 29 April 2016
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Training / Activities
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- May 8, 2017
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UNSRT (2009) Country Report: Denmark, A/HRC/10/44/Add.2
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- May 29, 2017
Document
CAT (2017) J.B. v Switzerland, No. 721/2015, 17 November 2017
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2018
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Forschungszentrum Menschenrechte Universität Wien & Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte (2014) HUMAN RIGHTS TALK: Menschenrechte hinter Gittern?
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- Type
- Discussion
- Duration
- 2:08:03
- Date added
- May 20, 2019
Learning platform
ICPR (2019) Towards A Health-Informed Approach To Penal Reform? Evidence From Ten Countries
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- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
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- Academia
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Jun 6, 2019
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Volksanwaltschaft - (2019) Präventive Menschenrechtskontrolle 2018
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Detention: Military facilities
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Detention: Social welfare institutions
- 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
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Jul 17, 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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- Theme
- 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
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Jul 19, 2019
Document
CAT (2019), V. P. v Russia, No. 780/2016, 26 July 2019
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 5, 2019
Document
SPT (2020) Advice to the UK NPM regarding compulsory quarantine for Coronavirus
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Quarantine
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Mar 27, 2020
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte (2020) Stellungnahme bezüglich der Situation von Insass*innen der Justizanstalten Österreichs während der COVID-19-Pandemie
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Jun 16, 2020
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BIM (2020) Open research behind closed doors: Assessing the impact of Covid-19 measures on persons deprived of liberty with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities
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- Project/activity
- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Date added
- Jul 10, 2020
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OSCE (2011) Torture, Ill-treatment and Disciplinary Proceedings in Prisons of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Other OSCE Offices
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Jul 31, 2020
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SPT(2019) Country Visit Report: Spain, CAT/OP/ESP/1
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- Theme
- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 18, 2020
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Journal Officiel De La Republique Francaise (2020) Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Source
- National bodies: Government / Administration
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
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Kosovo - NPM (2020) Annual Report 2019
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
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Lithuania - NPM (2020) Annual Report 2019
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
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Norway - NPM (2019) Special Report on the Shorting of Solitary Confinement and Lack of Human Contact in Norwegian Prisons: 2018-2019
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
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France - NPM (2020) Les fondamentaux des Personnes Privées de Liberté à l'Epreuve de la Crise Sanitaire
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
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France - NPM (2020) Les Violences Interpersonelles dans Les Lieux de Privation de Liberté
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention Monitoring
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
Document
Serbia - NPM (2020) Thematic Report: Application of CPT Principles Relating to the Treatment of Persons Deprived of Their Liberty in the Context of the Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19) Pandemic
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
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UK - NPM (2019) Use of Seclusion
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
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Switzerland - NPM (2019) La prise en charge médicale dans les établissements de privation de liberté en Suisse 2018-2019 (Résumé du rapport thématique)
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
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UK - NPM (2020) Children in Custody 2018-2019
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
Document
UK - NPM (2020) Thematic Report: Separation of Children in Young Offender Institutions
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
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WGAD (1998) Country Visit Report: UK, E/CN.4/1999/63/Add.3
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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WGAD (2005) Country Visit Report: Belarus, E/CN.4/2005/6/Add.3
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
Document
CCPR (2019) I.A. v Lithuania, No. 2989/2017, 26 July 2019
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 19, 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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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