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ACmHPR (2012) Johannesburg Declaration and Plan of Action on the Prevention and Criminalization of Torture in Africa
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Dec 1, 2020
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ACHPR (2012) Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Document Type
- Inquiry Procedure
- Date added
- Jul 12, 2019
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ACmHPR (2012) Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to the Sahrawi Arab Democractic Republic
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- African Union (AU): Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- African Union (AU): Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- May 9, 2019
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ACmHPR (2017) General Comment No. 4 on the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: The Right to Redress for Victims of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Punishment or Treatment (Article 5)
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- Theme
- Remedy & reparation
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- May 9, 2019
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ACmHPR, OHCHR & APT (2008) The Robben Island Guidelines (2nd ed)
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Civil society organisations
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- Legal instrument
- Date added
- May 8, 2018
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ACmHPR (2003) Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Fair Trial and Legal Assistance In Africa
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
- Date added
- May 8, 2018
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ACmHPR (2011) Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and INTERIGHTS v Egypt, No. 323/06, December 2011
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- Theme
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 13, 2017
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ACmHPR (2000) Malawi Africa Association et al v Mauritania, No. 54&61/91, 96&98/93, 164&/97 and 210/98, 11 May 2000.
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Source
- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 13, 2017
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