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ACHPR (2012) Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Document Type
- Inquiry Procedure
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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
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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Antigone (2021) Monitoring solitary confinement in prison: Briefing Paper
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- 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
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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BIM and ERA (2017) The Future of Mutual Trust and the Prevention of Ill-treatment - Judicial cooperation and the Engagement of National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
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- Civil society organisations
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- Academic literature
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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
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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CAT (2002) Inquiry procedure: Sri Lanka, A/57/44 (§ 117-195)
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Inquiry Procedure
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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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CPT (1993) Health care services in prisons
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Prisons
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
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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 (2010) Electrical discharge weapons
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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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 (2013) Documenting and reporting medical evidence of ill-treatment
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
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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 (2017) Inspection of a prison medical service by a CPT doctor - Checklist
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- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
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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 (2019) Preventing police torture and other forms of ill-treatment
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Interrogations
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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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CPTA (2012) Report of the Promotion Mission to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- African Union (AU): Committee for the Prevention of Torture
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- Report: Country Visit Report
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CTI (2021) Positive Discipline and Alternatives to Corporal Punishment of Children
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Training / Activities
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- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Czech Republic - NPM (2017) Report on systematic visits carried out by the public defender of rights 2016
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Transfers
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
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- Report: Thematic Report
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ECtHR (2014) Hassan v. the United Kingdom, No. 29750/09, 16 September 2014
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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Fair Trials (2018) Dismantling the Tools of Oppression: Ending the Misuse of INTERPOL
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Thematic Report
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FIDH, OMCT & AI (2021) The Fate of Thousands Hanging n the Balance - Afghanistan´s Fall into the Hands of the Taliban
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Thematic Report
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FRA (2017) Current Migration Situation in the EU: Torture, Trauma and its Possible Impact on Drug Use
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
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- European Union (EU): European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
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- Report: Thematic Report
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IACHR (2015) Towards the closure of Guantánamo
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- Organisation of American States (OAS): Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
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- Report: Thematic Report
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Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, adopted in 1985, entered into force in 1987
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- Organisation of American States (OAS): Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
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- Legal instrument
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IRCT (2004) Medical physical examination of alleged torture victims – A practical guide to the Istanbul Protocol – for medical doctors
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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IRCT (2009) Shedding light on a dark practice – Using the Istanbul Protocol to document torture
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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IRCT (2013) Engaging with European Union foreign policy on the ground – An IRCT guide
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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IRCT (2013) Engaging with State reviews in the UN Committee against Torture: A practical guide
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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IRCT (2013) Getting the evidence – Countering torture through medico-legal documentation
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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IRCT (2013) Recognising victims of torture in national asylum procedures – A comparative overview of early identification of victims and their access to medico-legal reports in asylum-receiving countries
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Immigration detention
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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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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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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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
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2023): Enhancing the Rights of Defendants and Detainees with Intellectual and/or Psychosocial Disabilities "JUSTICE FOR ALL" - Comparative Report
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- Alternative measures to detention
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- 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
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
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- Others
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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