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Alliance for Torture-Free Trade (2018) Joint Communique, 24 September 2018
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Inter-states initiatives : Alliance for Torture-Free Trade
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- Policy Paper/Strategies
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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
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Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (2021) Prisoners in a situation of vulnerability: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Detention Monitoring
- 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
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CAT (2012) Concluding Observations: Albania, CAT/C/ALB/CO/2
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Concluding Observations
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CAT (2013) Concluding Observations: Andorra, CAT/C/AND/CO/1
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Concluding Observations
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CAT (2014) Concluding Observations: Australia, CAT/C/AUS/CO/4-5
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Concluding Observations
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CEDAW (2013) General Recommendation No. 30 On Women in Conflict Prevention, Conflict and Post Conflict Situations, CEDAW/C/GC/30
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Transitional justice
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- General Comment
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CEDAW (2019) DRAFT General Recommendation on Trafficking of Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration
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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
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- General Comment
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CERD (2005) Draft General recommendation 31 on the prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system, CERD/C/GC/31/Rev.4
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
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- General Comment
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CERD (2011) General Recommendation No. 34 on racial discrimination against people of African descent, CERD/C/GC/34
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
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- General Comment
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CMW/CRC (2017) Joint general comment No. 3 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No. 22 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the general principles regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration, CMW/C/GC/3-CRC/C/GC/22
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
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- General Comment
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CMW/CRC (2017) Joint general comment No. 4 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No. 23 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on State obligations regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration in countries of origin, transit, destination and return, CMW/C/GC/4-CRC/C/GC/23
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Immigration detention
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- United Nations: Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
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- General Comment
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CoE (2007) Secret Detentions and illegal Transfers of Detainees involving Council of Europe Member States: second Report
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- Non refoulement & extradition
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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- Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly
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- Report: Thematic Report
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CoE (2021), No CM/Rec(2021)2, 31 March 2021, Recommendation on measures against the trade in goods used for the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) entry into force 4 January 1969
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- United Nations: General Assembly
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- Legal instrument
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CRC (2011) General Comment No. 13 on the Right to Freedom From all Forms of Violence, CRC/C/GC/13
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- 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 Rights of the Child
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- General Comment
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CRC (2019) General Comment No. 24 (replacing General Comment No. 10) on Children's Rights in the Child Justice System, CRC/C/GC/24
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- Alternative measures to detention
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
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CRPD (2014) General comment No. 1 on equal recognition before the law, CRPD/C/GC/1
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- General Comment
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CRPD (2016) General comment No. 3 on women and girls with disabilities, CRPD/C/GC/3
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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
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- General Comment
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CRPD (2018) General comment No. 6 on equality and nondiscrimination, CRPD/C/GC/6
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- General Comment
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EU (2005) No 1236/2005, 27 June 2005, Regulation concerning trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- European Union (EU): Council of the European Union
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- Legal instrument
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EU (2019) No 2019/125, 16 January 2019, Regulation concerning trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- European Union (EU): Council of the European Union
- European Union (EU): European Parliament
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European Parliament (2007) Report on the alleged use of European Countries by the CIA for the Transportation and illegal Detention of Prisoners, no. A6-9999/2007
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- Non refoulement & extradition
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Detention: Transfers
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- European Union (EU): European Parliament
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- Report: Thematic Report
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FRA (2017) Current Migration Situation in the EU: Torture, Trauma and its Possible Impact on Drug Use
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
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- European Union (EU): European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
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- Report: Thematic Report
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Human Rights Council (2018) Resolution: The negative impact of corruption on the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, A/HRC/RES/37/19
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Corruption
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- United Nations: Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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ICJ (2009) Assessing Damage, Urging Action
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- Evidence extracted by torture
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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N. Corney & M. Crowley (2019) A review of less lethal weapons manufacture trade and (mis)use
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Academia
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- Academic literature
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ODIHR (2005) Human Dimension Commitments: Thematic Compilation, Second edition
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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ODIHR (2012) Human Dimension Commitments: Volume 1, Thematic Compilation (third edition)
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Detention: Detention - general
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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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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- Academic literature
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ODIHR (2012) OSCE Human Dimension Commitments: Volume 2, Chronological Compilation (third edition)
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
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