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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
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2005) Slobodan Nikolic & Ljiljana Nikolic v Serbia and Montenegro, No. 174/2000, 24 November 2005
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2009) Besim Osmani v Serbia, No. 261/2005, 8 May 2009
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2014) Sergei Kirsanov v Russian Federation, No. 478/2011, 14 May 2014
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- 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
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2012) General Comment No. 3 on the implementation of article 14 by States parties, CAT/C/GC/3
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- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- General Comment
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CAT (2013) Oleg Evloev v Kazakhstan, No. 441/2010, 5 November 2013
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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UNSRT (2008) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/7/3
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- Detention Monitoring
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2016) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/31/57
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- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Remedy & reparation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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CAT (2018) J.O. v. Georgia, No. 730/2016, 9 August 2018
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
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CAT (2018) A.N. v. Switzerland, No. 742/2016 3 August 2018
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- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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IRCT (2013) Conference Report: The Right to Rehabilitation for Torture Victims
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- Accountability: Complaints
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Thematic Report
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IRCT (2015) Great Lakes Project: Providing holistic and community–based rehabilitation to victims of torture in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda
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- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Country Visit Report
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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CAT (2019) Paul Zentveld v New Zealand, No. 852/2017, 4 December 2019
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (1995) B.M'B. v Tunisia, No. 14/1994, 5 May 1995
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CAT (1999) Khaled Ben M’Barek v Tunisia, No. 60/1996, 10 November 1999
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2004) Dragan Dimitrijevic v Serbia and Montenegro, No. 207/2002, 24 November 2004
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2001) Radivoje Ristic v Yugoslavia, No. 113/1998, 11 May 2001
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2007) Ali Ben Salem v Tunisia, No. 269/2005, 7 November 2007
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2011) Dmytro Slyusar v Ukraine, No. 353/2008, 14 November 2011
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2011) Nirmal Singh v Canada, No. 319/2007, 30 May 2011
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- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2013) Djamila Bendib v Algeria, No. 376/2009, 8 November 2013
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2015) Déogratias Niyonzima v Burundi, No. 514/2012, 21 November 2014
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- 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
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2014) Rasim Bairamov v Kazakhstan, No. 497/2012, 14 May 2014
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- 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
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2017) Jean Ndagijimana v Burundi, No. 496/2012, 30 November 2017
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2017) G.N. v Burundi, No. 579/2013, 1 May 2017
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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UNSRT (2007) Report to the GA, A/62/221
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- Alternative measures to detention
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2007) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/4/33
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- Detention Monitoring
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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IRCT (2014) In pursuit of justice: The importance of psychosocial support for torture victims participating in legal proceedings
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- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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IRCT (2016) Falling Through the Cracks: Asylum Procedures and Reception Conditions for Torture Victims in the European Union
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- Alternative measures to detention
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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IRCT (2016) Torture and the Right to Rehabilitation in Nigeria
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Country Visit Report
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IRCT (2016) Torture and the Right to Rehabilitation in Kenya
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Country Visit Report
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IRCT (2016) Torture and the Right to Rehabilitation in Germany
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- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Country Visit Report
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IRCT (2016) Torture and the Right to Rehabilitation in Bolivia
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- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Country Visit Report
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TRIAL International (2019) Evidentiary challenges in universal jurisdiction cases - Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review 2019
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- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Thematic Report
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CAT (2018) Estela Deolinda Yrusta and Alejandra del Valle Yrusta v Argentina, No. 778/2016, 23 November 2018
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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ODIHR (2015) Report on the Human Rights Situation of Detainees at Guantanamo
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Interrogations
- Remedy & reparation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Language
- English
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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CEDAW (2019) A.J. et al. v the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, No. 126/2018, 28 October 2019
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CEDAW (2019) J.D. at al. v Czech Republic, No. 102/2016, 16 July 2019
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CCPR (2017) X. v Sri Lanka, No. 2256/2013, 27 July 2017
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2014) John Njie Monika v Cameroon, No. 1965/2010, 21 October 2014
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
Helsinki Hungarian Committee (2021) Complaint procedures and the right to information: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention: Prisons
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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CRC (2021) D.R. v Switzerland, No. 86/2019, 31 May 2021
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CEDAW (2020), S.H. v Bosnia, No. 116/2017, 9 July 2020
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2002) Hajrizi Dzemajl et al. v Yugoslavia, No. 161/2000, 21 November 2002
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2012) Alexander Gerasimov v Kazakhstan, No. 433/2010, 24 May 2012
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2015) H.B. v Algeria, No. 494/2012, 6 August 2015
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- 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 (2015) Hilda Mariolyn Hernández Colmenarez and Francisco Arturo Guerrero Sánchez v Venezuela, No. 456/2011, 15 May 2015
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2017) Aleksei Ushenin v. Kazakhstan, No. 651/2015, 12 May 2017
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
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- 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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- 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
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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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (1999) Report to the GA, A/54/426
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- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
UNSRT (2003) Report to the GA, A/58/120
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Remedy & reparation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
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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- Remedy & reparation
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- English
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Document Type
- General Comment
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CPTA (2012) Report of the Promotion Mission to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- African Union (AU): Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
OMCT (2014) The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-Treatment in the Inter-American Human Rights System: A Handbook for Victims and their Advocates
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
CAT (2019) M. Z. v Belgium, No. 813/2017, 2 August 2019
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
Document
APT & CTI (2017) Overview of anti-torture legislation in Latin America and the Caribbean
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
ODIHR et al. (2018) Second OSCE Workshop on Rehabilitation for Victims of Torture
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- Theme
- Remedy & reparation
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
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- Civil society organisations
- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- National bodies: Government / Administration
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document