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ACmHPR (2012) Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to the Sahrawi Arab Democractic Republic
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- African Union (AU): Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- African Union (AU): Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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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 & PRI (2015) Body searches: Addressing risk factors to prevent torture and ill-treatment
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- Detention: Detention - general
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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APT & PRI (2015) Institutional Culture in Detention: A framework for preventive monitoring
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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APT & PRI (2015) LGBTI persons deprived of their liberty: a framework for preventive monitoring
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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APT & PRI (2015) Staff working conditions: Addressing risk factors to prevent torture and ill-treatment
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- Detention: Detention - general
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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APT & PRI (2015) Video recording in police custody: Addressing risk factors to prevent torture and ill-treatment
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- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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APT & PRI (2018) Incident management and independent investigations - Addressing risk factors to prevent torture and ill-treatment
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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APT (2015) Addressing vulnerabilities of LGBT persons in detention
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- Detention: Detention - general
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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APT (2016) Monitoring psychiatric institutions
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- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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APT (2018) Towards the Effective Protection of LGBTI Persons Deprived of Liberty: A Monitoring Guide
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- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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APT (2019) Access to a lawyer during the first hours of custody in Mexico: A Situation Analysis
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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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
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BIM (2021) Open Research Behind Closed Doors, Infographic (main findings)
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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
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BIM (2021) Open Research Behind Closed Doors, Infographic (video)
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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
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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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Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (2021) Prisoners in a situation of vulnerability: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- 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
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Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (2023): Enhancing the Rights of Defendants and Detainees with Intellectual and/or Psychosocial Disabilities: EU Cross-Border Transfers, Detention and Alternatives - National Report Bulgaria
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- Alternative measures to detention
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Detention: Social welfare institutions
- Detention: Transfers
- 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
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- Others
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- Report: State Report / Reply
- Report: Thematic Report
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CCPR (1994) Youssef El-Megreisi v Libya, No. 440/1990, 23 March 1994
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- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2014) Ali Djahangir oglu Quliyev v Azerbaijan, No. 1972/2010, 16 October 2014
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2014) Olga Kozulina v Belarus, No. 1773/2008, 21 October 2014
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2015) Dzhakishev Mukhtar v Kazakhstan, No. 2304/2013, 6 November 2015
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2015) K.S. v Uzbekistan, No. 2174/2012, 23 July 2015
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Discontinuance
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CCPR (2017) S. Sh. v Kazakhstan, No. 2842/2016, 28 March 2017
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- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CED (2016) Estela Deolinda Yrusta and Alejandra del Valle Yrusta v Argentina, No. 1/2013, 11 March 2016
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
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- United Nations: Committee on Enforced Disappearances
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CEDAW (2020) R.G. v Kyrgyzstan, No. 133/2018, 3 November 2020
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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
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- 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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- 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
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- General Comment
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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
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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
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