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CCPR (2021) Andrei Mikhalenya and Aleksei Mikhalenya v Belarus, No. 3105/2018, 21 July 2021
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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- Jan 10, 2022
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CCPR (2021) Irma Leticia Hidalgo Rea v Mexico, No. 3259/2018, 25 March 2021
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Corruption
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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- Jan 10, 2022
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CAT (2019) Ali Aarrass v Morocco, No. 817/2017, 25 November 2019
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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- Dec 14, 2021
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Helsinki Hungarian Committee (2021) Complaints and the Right to Information (Hungarian subtitles)
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- Video/film
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- Oct 7, 2021
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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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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2015) M.G. v Poland, No. 2183/2012, 23 July 2015
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2015) A.S. v Nepal, No. 2077/2011, 6 November 2015
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2016) F.J. et al. v Australia, No. 2233/2013, 22 March 2016
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- Alternative measures to detention
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2017) Dmitry Tyan v Kazakhstan, No. 2125/2011, 16 March 2017
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- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2017) Siobhán Whelan v Ireland, No. 2425/2014, 17 March 2017
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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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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2017) Malika El Boathi v Algeria, No. 2259/2013, 17 March 2017
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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- Sep 13, 2021
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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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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2017) Shanta Neupane and Nisha Neupane v Nepal, No. 2170/2012, 21 July 2017
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2018) R. E. v the Russian Federation, No. 2249/2013, 19 July 2018
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2019) Arslan Dawletow v Turkmenistan, No. 2316/2013, 29 March 2019
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2020) Rachid Braih v Algeria, No. 2924/2016, 27 March 2020
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Military facilities
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2020) Malika Bendjael and Merouane Bendjael v Algeria, No. 2893/2016, 27 March 2020
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2019) Bholi Pharaka v Nepal, No. 2773/2016, 15 July 2019
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- 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
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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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
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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- Sep 10, 2021
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CRPD (2019), Z v Tanzania, No. 24/2014, 19 September 2019
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CRPD (2021) G.J.D. v Australia, No. 36/2016, 19 March 2021
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CRPD (2020) Rubén Calleja Loma and Alejandro Calleja v Spain, No. 41/2017, 28 August 2020
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CRPD (2020) N.L. v Sweden, No. 60/2019, 28 August 2020
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CRPD (2020) A.N.P. v South Africa, No. 73/2019, 28 August 2020
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- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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- Sep 10, 2021
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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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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CCPR (2021) Émile Bisimwa Muhirhi v DRC, No. 2772/2016, 23 March 2021
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Remedy & reparation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 9, 2021
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CCPR (2020) Fatima Rsiwi v Algeria, No. 2843/2016, 19 October 2020
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Military facilities
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 9, 2021
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CCPR (2020) E.I.G.R. v Spain, No. 3639/2019, 6 November 2020
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date modified
- Sep 9, 2021
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CCPR (2020) A.T. v Russia, No. 2517/2014, 6 November 2020
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date modified
- Sep 9, 2021
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CAT (2020) V.A. v Kazakhstan, No. 638/2014, 30 December 2020
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- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Discontinuance
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- Sep 9, 2021
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CCPR (2020) Mitko Vanchev v Bulgaria, No. 2820/2016, 6 November 2020
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 7, 2021
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CAT (2020), B.T.M.v Switzerland, 1015/2020, 30 December 2020,
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- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
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- Jurisprudence: Discontinuance
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- Sep 3, 2021
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Helsinki Hungarian Committee (2021) Complaint procedures and the right to information: Briefing Paper
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Remedy & reparation
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Apr 16, 2021
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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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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Apr 16, 2021
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OMCT (2014) Seeking Remedies for Torture Victims: A Handbook on the Individual Complaints Procedures of the UN Treaty Bodies
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- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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UNSRT (2008) Follow-up Report, A/HRC/7/3/Add.2
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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ODIHR et al. (2018) Second OSCE Workshop on Rehabilitation for Victims of Torture
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- Remedy & reparation
- Training / Activities
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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
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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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
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- Civil society organisations
- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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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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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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OMCT (2014) The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-Treatment in the African Human Rights System: A Handbook for Victims and their Advocates
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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ODIHR et al. (2018) UNCAT Implementation Tool 5/2018: Providing Rehabilitation to Victims of Torture and Other Ill-treatment
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- Remedy & reparation
- Training / Activities
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- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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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
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Jan 6, 2021
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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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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Accountability: Transitional justice
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Jan 5, 2021
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UNODC & Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2017) Resource book on the use of force and firearms in law enforcement
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Interrogations
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- United Nations: Office on Drugs and Crime
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Jan 5, 2021
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PRI & TIJ (2019) Guide to the rehabilitation and social reintegration of women prisoners: Implementation of the Bangkok Rules
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- Remedy & reparation
- Training / Activities
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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CPTA (2012) Report of the Promotion Mission to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
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- 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
- Source
- African Union (AU): Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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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
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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IRCT (2016) Torture and the Right to Rehabilitation in Bolivia
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- Theme
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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IRCT (2016) Torture and the Right to Rehabilitation in Germany
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- Theme
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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IRCT (2016) Torture and the Right to Rehabilitation in Kenya
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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IRCT (2016) Torture and the Right to Rehabilitation in Nigeria
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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IRCT (2016) Torture and the Right to Rehabilitation in the Philippines
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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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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- Theme
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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IRCT (2013) Conference Report: The Right to Rehabilitation for Torture Victims
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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IRCT (2013) Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors - A Resource Kit for Service Providers
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- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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IRCT (2017) Redress and Reparations for Torture Victims - Data in the fight against impunity
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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IRCT (2017) People on the Move: Torture and Migration - Data in the fight against impunity
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- Theme
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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IRCT (2017) Sexual Torture: An insight into needs-based rehabilitation - Data in the fight against impunity
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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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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- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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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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- Theme
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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