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Omega, ESRC & University Exeter (2017) Monitoring Weapons and Restraints in Places of Detention: A Practical Guide for Detention Monitors
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Dec 1, 2021
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BIM (2021) Open Research Behind Closed Doors, Factsheet
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention Monitoring
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Oct 21, 2021
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BIM (2021) Open Research Behind Closed Doors, Infographic (video)
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention Monitoring
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Oct 21, 2021
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BIM (2021) Open Research Behind Closed Doors, Infographic (main findings)
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Oct 21, 2021
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ODIHR (2021) Protecting Human Rights in Prisons while Preventing Radicalization Leading to Terrorism or Violence A Guide for Detention Monitors
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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ODIHR (2020) Human Rights and Gender Equality during Public Emergencies
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Detention: Detention - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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ODIHR (2021) Human Rights of Armed Forces Personnel: Compendium of Standards, Good Practices and Recommendations
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Detention: Military facilities
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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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
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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CCPR (2020) Kazybek Usekeev v Kyrgyzstan, No. 3000/2017, 6 November 2020
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Military facilities
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 7, 2021
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SPT (2019) NPM checklist on health-care issues relating to the monitoring of places of detention, CAT/OP/7
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Health-care settings
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Sep 6, 2021
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2021) Monitoring prison violence: Briefing Paper
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Date added
- Apr 29, 2021
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Antigone (2021) Monitoring solitary confinement in prison: Briefing Paper
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Prisons
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (2021) Prisoners in a Situation of Vulnerability - Briefing Paper
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- Theme
- 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
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2021) Systemic Thinking in Preventing Human Rights Monitoring: A Dossier for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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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
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (2021) Prisoners in a situation of vulnerability: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Prisons
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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Antigone (2021) Monitoring solitary confinement in prison: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2021) Monitoring prison violence: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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ODIHR & Fair Trials (2020) Eliminating Incentives for Torture in the OSCE Region
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Interrogations
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Dec 7, 2020
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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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- Theme
- 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
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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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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- Theme
- 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
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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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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- Theme
- 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
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Vladimir Nuryllayev and Aibek Salayev v Turkmenistan, No. 2448/2014, 29 March 2019
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- Theme
- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2020
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CCPR (2020) Evgeny Bryukhanov v Russian Federation, No. 2367/2014, 12 March 2020
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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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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- Theme
- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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FRA (2010) Detention of Third-Country Nationals in Return Procedures
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- Theme
- Detention: Immigration detention
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- European Union (EU): European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 12, 2020
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FRA (2017) European Legal and Policy Framework on Immigation Detention of Children
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- European Union (EU): European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 12, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) Human Rights and Prisons. Manual on Human Rights Training for Prison Officials
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- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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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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- Theme
- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) Human Rights and Prisons. Trainer's Guide on Human Rights Training for Prison Officials
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- Theme
- 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
- Training / Activities
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) Human Rights and Prisons. A Compilation of InternationalHuman Rights Instrumentsconcerning the Administration of Justice
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- Theme
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Legal instrument
- Rules of Procedure
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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