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APT (2014) Beware the gift of poison fruit: Sharing information with States that torture
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Evidence extracted by torture
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 20, 2017
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- May 29, 2017
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- May 29, 2017
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- May 29, 2017
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- May 29, 2017
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UNSRT (2008) Follow-up Report, A/HRC/7/3/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- May 29, 2017
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UNSRT (2008) Country Report: Togo, A/HRC/7/3/Add.5
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- May 29, 2017
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UNSRT (2009) Country Report: Denmark, A/HRC/10/44/Add.2
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- May 29, 2017
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UNSRT (2014) Interim Report to the GA, A/69/387
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 11, 2017
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
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Sep 11, 2017
Document
UNSRT (2010) Interim Report to the GA, A/65/273
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 11, 2017
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United Nations (2015) Guidelines against Intimidation or Reprisals (San José Guidelines)
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Oct 4, 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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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: General Assembly
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
- Date added
- Oct 31, 2017
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Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the American University Washington College of Law (2013) Human Rights Brief - Litigation before the UN Committee against Torture: Strengthening this Important Tool against Torture
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2017
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2015) Handbook for Human Rights Treaty Body Members
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Nov 28, 2017
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OHCHR (2013) Individual Complaint Procedures Under the United Nations Human Rights Treaties
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Nov 29, 2017
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CCPR (2006) Concluding Observations: United States, CCPR/C/USA/CO/3/Rev.1
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- Theme
- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
- Date added
- Feb 6, 2018
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CTI (2017) UNCAT Implementation Tool 3/2017: Reporting to the Committee against Torture
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Mar 23, 2018
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APT (2013) Alternative reporting to the Committee against Torture
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Mar 23, 2018
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APT (2008) Torture in International Law: A guide to jurisprudence
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 12, 2018
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APT (2002) A Handbook in State Obligations under the UN Convention against Torture
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- May 8, 2018
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ECtHR (2018), Hovhannisyan v. Armenia, no. 18419/13
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Oct 12, 2018
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CPT (2018) Complaints mechanisms
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
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- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Jan 25, 2019
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CPT (2004) Combating impunity
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Jan 25, 2019
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CoE (2014) Effective Investigation of Ill-Treatment. Guidelines on European Standards
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- Theme
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- Council of Europe: Commissioner for Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Jan 25, 2019
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CPT (2018) A brief introduction to investigative interviewing
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- Theme
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Jan 25, 2019
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IRCT (2009) Action against torture – A practical guide to the Istanbul Protocol – for lawyers
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Detention - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 11, 2019
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IRCT (2009) Psychological evaluation of torture allegations – A practical guide to the Istanbul Protocol – for psychologists
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- Theme
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 11, 2019
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IRCT (2009) Shedding light on a dark practice – Using the Istanbul Protocol to document torture
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 11, 2019
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IRCT (2012) Forensic Examination Missions by Medical Teams Investigating and Documenting Alleged Cases of Torture: Operational Manual
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a medical doctor
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 11, 2019
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