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CAT (2012) Concluding Observations: Armenia, CAT/C/ARM/CO/3
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
- Date added
- Nov 7, 2016
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CAT (2008) L. J. R. v Australia, No. 316/2007, 11 November 2008
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Mar 30, 2017
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CAT (2014) Boniface Ntikarahera v Burundi, No. 503/2012, 12 May 2014
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 13, 2017
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CAT (2014) Rasim Bairamov v Kazakhstan, No. 497/2012, 14 May 2014
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 18, 2017
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CAT (2014) Sergei Kirsanov v Russian Federation, No. 478/2011, 14 May 2014
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 18, 2017
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CAT (2015) Déogratias Niyonzima v Burundi, No. 514/2012, 21 November 2014
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 20, 2017
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CAT (2015) X. v Burundi, No. 553/2013, 10 August 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 27, 2017
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CAT (2015) Patrice Gahungu v Burundi, No. 522/2012, 10 August 2015
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 27, 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 (2008) Country Report: Indonesia, A/HRC/7/3/Add.7
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- 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) Interim Report to the GA, A/64/215
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic 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 (2010) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/13/39/Add.5
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Sep 11, 2017
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UNSRT (2011) Initial Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/16/52
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 11, 2017
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UNSRT (2003) Report to the Commission on Human Rights, E/CN.4/2004/56
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2018
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UNSRT (2018) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/37/50
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Feb 26, 2018
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CAT (2017) J.B. v Switzerland, No. 721/2015, 17 November 2017
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2018
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CAT (2015) Saidi Ntahiraja v Burundi, No. 575/2013, 3 August 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Interrogations
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- May 3, 2018
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UNSRT (2006) Report to the Commission on Human Rights, E/CN.4/2006/120
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Interrogations
- Detention: Military facilities
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
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UNSRT (2007) Country Report: Sudan/Darfur, A/HRC/5/6
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
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UNSRT (2007) Country Report: Sudan/Darfur (Final Report), A/HRC/6/19
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
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UNGA (2010) Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Nelson Mandela Rules)
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Prisons
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: General Assembly
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
- Date added
- Oct 16, 2019
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SPT (2020) Advice to the UK NPM regarding compulsory quarantine for Coronavirus
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Quarantine
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Mar 27, 2020
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CAT (2019) Hany Khater v Morocco, No. 782/2016, 22 November 2019
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 9, 2020
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CAT (2019) Ali Aarrass v Morocco, No. 817/2017, 25 November 2019
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 9, 2020
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ODIHR (2019) Places of Deprivation of Liberty and Gender
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
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- Civil society organisations
- United Nations: Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Jul 31, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) Human Rights and Prisons. Trainer's Guide on Human Rights Training for Prison Officials
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- Theme
- 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
- Detention: Prisons
- Training / Activities
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) A Pocketbook of International Human Rights Standards for Prison Officials
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- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- 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
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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SPT(2019) Country Visit Report: Kazakhstan, CAT/OP/KAZ/1/Add1
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: State Report / Reply
- Date added
- Aug 18, 2020
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