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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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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Training / Activities
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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CAT (2005) Kepa Urra Guridi v Spain, No. 212/2002, 17 May 2005
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2012) Concluding Observations: Albania, CAT/C/ALB/CO/2
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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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
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CAT (2013) Concluding Observations: Andorra, CAT/C/AND/CO/1
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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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
Document
CAT (2017) J.M. v. Canada, No. 699/2015, 12 May 2017
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2017) Olga Shestakova v Russia, No. 712/2015, 28 November 2017
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CAT (2017) Rached Jaïdane v Tunisia, No. 654/2015, 11 August 2017
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
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
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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CCPR (2015) G.C.A.A. v Uruguay, No. 2358/2014, 2 November 2015
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CCPR (2018) Pavel Barkovsky v Belarus, No. 2247/2013, 13 July 2018
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2019) Bholi Pharaka v Nepal, No. 2773/2016, 15 July 2019
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2019) Fulmati Nyaya v Nepal, No. 2556/2015, 18 March 2019
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- General Comment
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CEDAW (2014) Angela González Carreño v Spain, No. 47/2012, 16 July 2014
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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
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CEDAW (2015) X. and Y. v Georgia, No. 24/2009, 13 July 2015
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CEDAW (2017) O.G. v Russian Federation, No. 91/2015, 6 November 2017
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2006) Rule-of-Law Tools for Post-Conflict States - Prosecution initiatives
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Accountability: Transitional justice
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2008) Rule-of-Law Tools for Post-Conflict States - Reparations programmes
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Accountability: Transitional justice
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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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
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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
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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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
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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
Document
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
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (2006) Country Visit Report: Ecuador, A/HRC/4/40/Add.2
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document