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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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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Nov 7, 2016
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UNSRT (2008) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/7/3
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Detention Monitoring
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- May 29, 2017
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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
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 5, 2017
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UNSRT (2010) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/13/39/Add.5
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Sep 11, 2017
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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
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Sep 11, 2017
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Centre for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law ATI (2018) Gender Perspectives on Torture: Law and Practice
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Detention: Detention - general
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- Civil society organisations
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- Academic literature
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- Mar 23, 2018
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) entry into force 3 September 1981
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: General Assembly
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- Legal instrument
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- Apr 24, 2018
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CEDAW (2017) General Recommendation No. 35 on Gender-based Violence against Women, updating General Recommendation No. 19, CEDAW/C/GC/35
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 26, 2018
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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
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2019
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CAT (2019) A v Bosnia and Herzegovina, No. 854/2017, 2 August 2019
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 5, 2019
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ODIHR (2019) Preventing and Addressing Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Places of Deprivation of Liberty: Standards, Approaches and Examples from the OSCE Region
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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- Dec 2, 2019
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ODIHR (2012) Handbook for National Human Rights Institutions on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 3, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2018) Integrating a Gender Perspective into Human Rights Investigations. Guidance and Practice
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2008) Selected Decisions of the Committee against Torture
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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SPT(2019) Country Visit Report: Spain, CAT/OP/ESP/1
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- 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
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 18, 2020
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CRC (2019) General Comment No. 24 (replacing General Comment No. 10) on Children's Rights in the Child Justice System, CRC/C/GC/24
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- Alternative measures to detention
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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CRC (2011) General Comment No. 13 on the Right to Freedom From all Forms of Violence, CRC/C/GC/13
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- 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 Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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CRC (2006) General Comment No. 8 on the Right of the Child to Protection from Corporal Punishment and Other Cruel or Degrading Forms of Punishment (arts. 19; 28, para. 2; and 37, inter alia), CRC/C/GC/8
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- 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 Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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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
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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CEDAW (2019) R.S.A.A. at al v Denmark, No. 86/2015, 15 January 2019
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- 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
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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CEDAW (2019) DRAFT General Recommendation on Trafficking of Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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UNSRT (2019) Interim report to the GA, A/74/148
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Nov 13, 2020
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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
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Vladimir Nuryllayev and Aibek Salayev v Turkmenistan, No. 2448/2014, 29 March 2019
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2020
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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
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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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
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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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
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2015) M.C. v Denmark, No. 56/2013, 9 November 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CEDAW (2014) N. v Netherlands, No. 39/2012, 17 February 2014
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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