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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) entry into force 4 January 1969
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- United Nations: General Assembly
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
- Date added
- Apr 24, 2018
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SPT(2019) Country Visit Report: Spain, CAT/OP/ESP/1
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 18, 2020
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WGAD (2006) Country Visit Report: Canada, E/CN.4/2006/7/Add.2
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
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- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 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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- 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
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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CRC (2011) General Comment No. 13 on the Right to Freedom From all Forms of Violence, CRC/C/GC/13
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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CEDAW (2013) General Recommendation No. 30 On Women in Conflict Prevention, Conflict and Post Conflict Situations, CEDAW/C/GC/30
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Transitional justice
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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CEDAW (2019) R.S.A.A. at al v Denmark, No. 86/2015, 15 January 2019
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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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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- Theme
- 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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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 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/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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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
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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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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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CERD (2014) A.M.M. v Switzerland, No. 50/2012, 18 February 2014
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CRPD (2018) General comment No. 6 on equality and nondiscrimination, CRPD/C/GC/6
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- Theme
- 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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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CRPD (2016) General comment No. 3 on women and girls with disabilities, CRPD/C/GC/3
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- Theme
- 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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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CRPD (2014) General comment No. 1 on equal recognition before the law, CRPD/C/GC/1
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CRC (2019) J.G. v Switzerland, No. 47/2018, 28 June 2019
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Discontinuance
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CEDAW (2020) S.F.M. v Spain, No. 138/2018, 28 February 2020
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CEDAW (2019) X. and Y. v Russian Federation, No. 100/2016, 16 July 2019
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CEDAW (2018) H.D. v Denmark, No. 76/2014, 9 July 2018
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CEDAW (2015) X. and Y. v Georgia, No. 24/2009, 13 July 2015
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CEDAW (2017) S.J.A. v Denmark, No. 79/2014, 6 November 2017
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2017) O.G. v Russian Federation, No. 91/2015, 6 November 2017
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2015) M.C. v Denmark, No. 56/2013, 9 November 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2014) Angela González Carreño v Spain, No. 47/2012, 16 July 2014
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2014) N. v Netherlands, No. 39/2012, 17 February 2014
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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
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2011) T.P.F. v Peru, No. 22/2009, 17 October 2011
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2011) Inga Abramova v Belraus, No. 23/2009, 25 July 2011
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2014) S.O. v Canada, No. 49/2013, 27 October 2014
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2014) Y.C. v Denmark, No. 59/2013, 24 October 2014
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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