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UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (1990) Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Detention: Detention - general
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- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office on Drugs and Crime
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
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UNGA (1988) Body of Principles for the Protection of all Persons under any Form of Detention or Imprisonment
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- English
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- United Nations: General Assembly
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
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WGAD (2006) Situation of Detainees at Guantánamo Bay, E/CN.4/2006/120
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Military facilities
- Detention: Transfers
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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WGAD (1996) Country Visit Report: Nepal, E/CN.4/1997/4/Add.2
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- English
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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CCPR (2014) Vasily Yuzepchuk v Belarus, No. 1906/2009, 24 October 2014
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2014) Hadhoum Hmeed Mohamed v Libya, No. 2046/2011, 17 October 2014
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (1995) B.M'B. v Tunisia, No. 14/1994, 5 May 1995
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CAT (1999) Khaled Ben M’Barek v Tunisia, No. 60/1996, 10 November 1999
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (1999) Josu Arkauz Arana v France, No. 63/1997, 9 November 1999
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2013) Djamila Bendib v Algeria, No. 376/2009, 8 November 2013
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
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 (2016) Communications Report, A/HRC/31/57/Add.1
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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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
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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
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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CAT (2015) H.B. v Algeria, No. 494/2012, 6 August 2015
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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: Spain, CAT/OP/ESP/1
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- 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: Peru, E/CN.4/1999/63/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic 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 (2005) Country Visit Report: Belarus, E/CN.4/2005/6/Add.3
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- 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 (2006) Country Visit Report: Canada, E/CN.4/2006/7/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- 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 (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
CCPR (2016) Valentina Kashtanova and Gulnara Slukina v Uzbekistan, No. 2106/2011, 28 October 2016
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2015) John-Jacques Lumbala Tshidika v Democratic Republic of the Congo, No. 2214/2012, 5 November 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2015) Pavel Selyun v Belarus, No. 2289/2013, 6 November 2015
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2020) Hom Bahadur Bagale v Nepal, No. 2777/2016, 2 November 2020
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (1998) E.O. Akhidenor et al v Canada, No. 67/1997, 17 Noveber 1998
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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