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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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- English
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- Civil society organisations
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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APT (2013) Alternative reporting to the Committee against Torture
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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CAT (2001) Radivoje Ristic v Yugoslavia, No. 113/1998, 11 May 2001
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- 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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CTI (2017) UNCAT Implementation Tool 3/2017: Reporting to the Committee against Torture
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- Accountability: Complaints
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- English
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- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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UNSRT (2007) Report to the GA, A/62/221
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- Alternative measures to detention
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
CPT (2018) Complaints mechanisms
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- Accountability: Complaints
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- English
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- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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CPT (2004) Combating impunity
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- English
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- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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CoE (2014) Effective Investigation of Ill-Treatment. Guidelines on European Standards
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- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- English
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- Council of Europe: Commissioner for Human Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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CPT (2018) A brief introduction to investigative interviewing
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- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- English
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- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Defence for Children International - Belgium (2016) Practical Guide - Monitoring places where children are deprived of liberty
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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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
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2009) Rule-of-Law Tools for Post-Conflict States - National consultations on transitional justice
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- Accountability: Transitional justice
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- English
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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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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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Document Type
- 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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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Document Type
- General Comment
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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
- Language
- English
- Source
- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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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
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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Helsinki Hungarian Committee (2021) Complaint procedures and the right to information: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- 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
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SPT (2016) Policy of the SPT on reprisals in relation to its visiting mandate, CAT/OP/6/Rev.1
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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UNSRT (2021) Interim Report to the GA, A/76/168
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (1999) Report to the GA, A/54/426
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- 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
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UNSRT (2014) Interim Report to the GA, A/69/387
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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OMCT (2014) The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-Treatment in the Inter-American Human Rights System: A Handbook for Victims and their Advocates
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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CTI (2019) UNCAT Implementation Tool 6/2019: Procedures and Mechanisms to Handle Complaints of and Investigations into Torture or Ill-treatment
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
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- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
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- 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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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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ODIHR (2003) Individual Human Rights Complaints: A Handbook for OSCE Field Personnel
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- 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
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