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UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, adopted in 1984, entered into force in 1987 (CAT)
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Source
- United Nations: General Assembly
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
- Date added
- Oct 31, 2017
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Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture, adopted in 2002, entered into force in 2006 (OPCAT)
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- United Nations: General Assembly
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
- Date added
- Oct 31, 2017
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CAT (1990) Report of the Human Rights Committee
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Oct 5, 2018
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2008) Selected Decisions of the Committee against Torture
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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