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ACmHPR (2012) Johannesburg Declaration and Plan of Action on the Prevention and Criminalization of Torture in Africa
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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APF, APT & Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2010) Preventing Torture: An Operational Guide for National Human Rights Institutions
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Training / Activities
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- Civil society organisations
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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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
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- Report: Thematic Report
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APT (2002) A Handbook in State Obligations under the UN Convention against Torture
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Asean Human Rights Declaration
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
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- Legal instrument
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BIM and ERA (2017) The Future of Mutual Trust and the Prevention of Ill-treatment - Judicial cooperation and the Engagement of National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
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- Civil society organisations
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- Academic literature
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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
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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CAT (1994) Inquiry procedure: Turkey, A/49/44 (§172-177)
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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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CAT (1996) Inquiry procedure: Egypt, A5144 (§ 180-222)
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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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CAT (1997) Report of the Committee against Torture
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2002) Hajrizi Dzemajl et al. v Yugoslavia, No. 161/2000, 21 November 2002
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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CAT (2012) Concluding Observations: Armenia, CAT/C/ARM/CO/3
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- 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
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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CAT (2013) Concluding Observations: Andorra, CAT/C/AND/CO/1
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- Theme
- 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
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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CCPR ( 2004) Selected Decisions of the Human Rights Committee under the Optional Protocol - Volume 4
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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
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CCPR (1985) Selected Decisions under the Optional Protocol
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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
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CCPR (1990) Selected Decisions of the Human Rights Committee und the Optional Protocol - Volume 2
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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
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CCPR (1992) General Comment No. 20 on article 7 (Prohibition of Torture or Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment), CCPR/C/GC/20
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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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- General Comment
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CCPR (2002) Selected Decisions of the Human Rights Committee under the Optional Protocol - Volume 3
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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
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CCPR (2007) Selected Decisions of the Human Rights Committee und the Optional Protocol
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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
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CCPR (2017) X. v Sri Lanka, No. 2256/2013, 27 July 2017
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2019) Vladimir Nuryllayev and Aibek Salayev v Turkmenistan, No. 2448/2014, 29 March 2019
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2020) Kazybek Usekeev v Kyrgyzstan, No. 3000/2017, 6 November 2020
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Military facilities
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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 (2017) General Recommendation No. 35 on Gender-based Violence against Women, updating General Recommendation No. 19, CEDAW/C/GC/35
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- 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
- Document Type
- General Comment
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Centre for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law ATI (2018) Gender Perspectives on Torture: Law and Practice
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Detention: Detention - general
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Academic literature
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CMW (2013) General comment No. 2 on the rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and their families, CMW/C/GC/2
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- 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
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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
- Document Type
- General Comment
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) entry into force 3 September 1981
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: General Assembly
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- Legal instrument
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