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CCPR (2021), Devi Maya Nepal (pseudonym) v Nepal, No. 2615/2015, 15 July 2021
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Jan 10, 2022
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CCPR (2015) M.T. v Uzbekistan, No. 2234/2013, 23 July 2015
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- Evidence extracted by torture
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2015) John-Jacques Lumbala Tshidika v Democratic Republic of the Congo, No. 2214/2012, 5 November 2015
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- 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
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2017) Purna Maya v Nepal, No. 2245/2013, 17 March 2017
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Military facilities
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2017) M.Z.B.M. v Denmark, No. 2593/2015, 20 March 2017
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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CCPR (2019) Vladimir Nuryllayev and Aibek Salayev v Turkmenistan, No. 2448/2014, 29 March 2019
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- 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 modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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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 modified
- Sep 13, 2021
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ODIHR (2021) Integrating the Issue of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Detention Monitoring
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- 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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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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ODIHR (2020) Human Rights and Gender Equality during Public Emergencies
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- 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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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CEDAW (2021) Magdulein Abaida v Lybia, No. 130/2018, 18 February 2021
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CEDAW (2020) R.G. v Kyrgyzstan, No. 133/2018, 3 November 2020
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CEDAW (2020) Rahma Abdi-Osman v Switzerland, No. 122/2017, 6 July 2020
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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CEDAW (2020), S.H. v Bosnia, No. 116/2017, 9 July 2020
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- Theme
- 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
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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New Zealand Human Rights Commission (2020) Time for a Paradigm Change: A Follow Up Review of Seclusion and Restraint Practices in New Zealand
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- 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 rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
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- Academia
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Sep 10, 2021
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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
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date modified
- Sep 9, 2021
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CCPR (2021) H.G. v Sweden, No. 3266/2018, 23 July 2021
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date modified
- Sep 9, 2021
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CEDAW (2019) R.S.A.A. at al v Denmark, No. 86/2015, 15 January 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 modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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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 modified
- Jan 7, 2021
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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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- Theme
- 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
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date modified
- Jan 5, 2021
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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
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date modified
- Jan 5, 2021
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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 modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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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
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date modified
- Dec 18, 2020
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CEDAW (2012) M.P.M. v Canada, No. 25/2010, 24 February 2012
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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 modified
- Dec 17, 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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- Theme
- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date modified
- Dec 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 modified
- Dec 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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date modified
- Dec 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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date modified
- Dec 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 modified
- Dec 17, 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 modified
- Dec 17, 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 modified
- Dec 17, 2020
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