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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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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
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
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
ODIHR (2016) Final Opinion on the Draft Act Amending the Act on the Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Detention Monitoring
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- English
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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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ODIHR (2016) Preliminary Opinion on the Draft Act Amending the Act on the Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Detention Monitoring
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- English
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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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CEDAW (2019) X. and Y. v Russian Federation, No. 100/2016, 16 July 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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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2018) Pavel Barkovsky v Belarus, No. 2247/2013, 13 July 2018
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2017) Olga Shestakova v Russia, No. 712/2015, 28 November 2017
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
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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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CCPR (2006) Concluding Observations: United States, CCPR/C/USA/CO/3/Rev.1
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Concluding Observations
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CPT (2004) Combating impunity
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- English
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- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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APF, APT & Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2010) Preventing Torture: An Operational Guide for National Human Rights Institutions
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Training / Activities
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- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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ODIHR (2017) Opinion on the Draft Federal Law on the support to the National Human Rights Institution of Switzerland
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
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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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CCPR (2019) Fulmati Nyaya v Nepal, No. 2556/2015, 18 March 2019
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- 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
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
ACmHPR (2012) Johannesburg Declaration and Plan of Action on the Prevention and Criminalization of Torture in Africa
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- English
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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CAT (2017) J.M. v. Canada, No. 699/2015, 12 May 2017
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- 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
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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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- English
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- 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
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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ACmHPR (2012) Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to the Sahrawi Arab Democractic Republic
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Language
- English
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- African Union (AU): Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- African Union (AU): Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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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
- Language
- English
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- African Union (AU): Committee for the Prevention of Torture
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- Report: Country Visit Report
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ODIHR (2018) Opinion on Definition of Torture and its Absolute Prohibition in Polish Legislation
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- 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
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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ODIHR (2014) Opinion on Article 235 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- 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
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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
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- English
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- Civil society organisations
- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2018) Who''s Responsible? Attributing Individual Responsibility for Violations of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in United Nations Commissions of Inquiry, Fact-Finding Missions and other Investigations
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- English
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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SPT (2019) Country Visit Report: Turkey, CAT/OP/TUR/1
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
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- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (2002) Country Visit Report: Bahrain, E/CN.4/2002/77/Add.2
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
WGAD (2006) Country Visit Report: Nicaragua, A/HRC/4/40/Add.3
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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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
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CEDAW (2013) General Recommendation No. 30 On Women in Conflict Prevention, Conflict and Post Conflict Situations, CEDAW/C/GC/30
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- 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
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- General Comment
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CEDAW (2014) Angela González Carreño v Spain, No. 47/2012, 16 July 2014
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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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CEDAW (2017) O.G. v Russian Federation, No. 91/2015, 6 November 2017
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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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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