Search Tips
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights & APT & APF (2010) Preventing Torture - An Operational Guide for National Human Rights Institutions
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2004) Human Rights Standards and Practice for the Police. Expanded Pcoket Book on Human Rights for the Police
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Detention - general
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
CAT (2001) Radivoje Ristic v Yugoslavia, No. 113/1998, 11 May 2001
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
UNSRT (2007) Report to the GA, A/62/221
- Preview
- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
CPT (2018) Complaints mechanisms
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Language
- English
- Source
- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
CPT (2004) Combating impunity
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
CoE (2014) Effective Investigation of Ill-Treatment. Guidelines on European Standards
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- Council of Europe: Commissioner for Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
CPT (2018) A brief introduction to investigative interviewing
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
Defence for Children International - Belgium (2016) Practical Guide - Monitoring places where children are deprived of liberty
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2016) The Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2009) Rule-of-Law Tools for Post-Conflict States - National consultations on transitional justice
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Transitional justice
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
ACmHPR (2012) Johannesburg Declaration and Plan of Action on the Prevention and Criminalization of Torture in Africa
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Language
- English
- Source
- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
Helsinki Hungarian Committee (2021) Complaint procedures and the right to information: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention: Prisons
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
UNSRT (2021) Interim Report to the GA, A/76/168
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
CAT (2002) Hajrizi Dzemajl et al. v Yugoslavia, No. 161/2000, 21 November 2002
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the American University Washington College of Law (2013) Human Rights Brief - Litigation before the UN Committee against Torture: Strengthening this Important Tool against Torture
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
UNSRT (1999) Report to the GA, A/54/426
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
UNSRT (2014) Interim Report to the GA, A/69/387
- Preview
- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
ODIHR (2003) Individual Human Rights Complaints: A Handbook for OSCE Field Personnel
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Detention: Detention - general
- Interrogations
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2018) Who''s Responsible? Attributing Individual Responsibility for Violations of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in United Nations Commissions of Inquiry, Fact-Finding Missions and other Investigations
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) Human Rights and Prisons. Manual on Human Rights Training for Prison Officials
- Preview
- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Accountability: Complaints
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Detention: Prisons
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
United Nations (2015) Guidelines against Intimidation or Reprisals (San José Guidelines)
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
IRCT (2009) Action against torture – A practical guide to the Istanbul Protocol – for lawyers
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Detention - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
IRCT (2009) Psychological evaluation of torture allegations – A practical guide to the Istanbul Protocol – for psychologists
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
IRCT (2009) Shedding light on a dark practice – Using the Istanbul Protocol to document torture
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
IRCT (2012) Forensic Examination Missions by Medical Teams Investigating and Documenting Alleged Cases of Torture: Operational Manual
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a medical doctor
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
IRCT (2013) Getting the evidence – Countering torture through medico-legal documentation
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
IRCT (2012) A Practical Guide to the UPR – How NGOs can influence the Universal Periodic Review process
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
IRCT (2013) Engaging with UN Human Rights Mechanisms: An Introduction
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
Fair Trials (2018) Beyond Surrender. Putting Human Rights at the Heart of the European Arrest Warrant
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document