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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights & APT & APF (2010) Preventing Torture - An Operational Guide for National Human Rights Institutions
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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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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- 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
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- General Comment
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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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2004) Human Rights Standards and Practice for the Police. Expanded Pcoket Book on Human Rights for the Police
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Detention - general
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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CCPR (2006) Concluding Observations: United States, CCPR/C/USA/CO/3/Rev.1
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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UNSRT (2007) Country Report: Nigeria, A/HRC/7/3/Add.4
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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UNSRT (2007) Follow-up Report, A/HRC/4/33/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2007) Report to the GA, A/62/221
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- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2007) Country Report: Jordan, A/HRC/4/33/Add.3
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
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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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2016) The Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2009) Rule-of-Law Tools for Post-Conflict States - National consultations on transitional justice
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- Theme
- Accountability: Transitional justice
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Document Type
- General Comment
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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
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Document Type
- General Comment
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SPT (2016) Policy of the SPT on reprisals in relation to its visiting mandate, CAT/OP/6/Rev.1
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
UNSRT (2021) Interim Report to the GA, A/76/168
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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CEDAW (2021) Magdulein Abaida v Lybia, No. 130/2018, 18 February 2021
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
UNSRT (1999) Report to the GA, A/54/426
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
UNSRT (2014) Interim Report to the GA, A/69/387
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2018) Who''s Responsible? Attributing Individual Responsibility for Violations of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in United Nations Commissions of Inquiry, Fact-Finding Missions and other Investigations
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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SPT (2019) Country Visit Report: Turkey, CAT/OP/TUR/1
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (1999) Country Visit Report: Indonesia, E/CN.4/2000/4/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (2002) Country Visit Report: Bahrain, E/CN.4/2002/77/Add.2
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
WGAD (2003) Country Visit Report: Argentina, E/CN.4/2004/3/Add.3
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
WGAD (2003) Country Visit Report: Mexico, E/CN.4/2003/8/Add.3
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Corruption
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Military facilities
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (2006) Country Visit Report: Nicaragua, A/HRC/4/40/Add.3
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
CEDAW (2019) R.S.A.A. at al v Denmark, No. 86/2015, 15 January 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CEDAW (2013) General Recommendation No. 30 On Women in Conflict Prevention, Conflict and Post Conflict Situations, CEDAW/C/GC/30
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- Theme
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- General Comment
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