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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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UNSRT (2016) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/31/57
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- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Remedy & reparation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2017) Report to the GA, A/72/178
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2018) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/37/50
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2012) Communications Report, A/HRC/19/61/Add.4
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: Thematic Report
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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
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- General Comment
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights & APT & APF (2010) Preventing Torture - An Operational Guide for National Human Rights Institutions
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- Civil society organisations
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2019) Human Rights Report 2019
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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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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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- General Comment
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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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- English
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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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- English
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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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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
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Detention - general
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- English
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- 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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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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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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- English
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- Civil society organisations
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2017) UN Human Rights Report 2017
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
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- English
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2016) The Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- English
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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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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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- General Comment
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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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- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- 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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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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UNSRT (1999) Report to the GA, A/54/426
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- 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
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2000) Interim Report to the GA, A/55/290
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2001) Report to the GA, A/56/156
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2002) Report to the GA, A/57/173
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Detention Monitoring
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2003) Report to the GA, A/58/120
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Remedy & reparation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2004) Report to the GA, A/59/324
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2012) Interim Report to the GA, A/67/279
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Detention Monitoring
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2006) Report to the Commission on Human Rights, E/CN.4/2006/120
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Interrogations
- Detention: Military facilities
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2018) Human Rights Report 2018
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
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- English
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) A Pocketbook of International Human Rights Standards for Prison Officials
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- Alternative measures to detention
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- 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
- Detention: Prisons
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- English
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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