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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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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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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
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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
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- Report: Country Visit Report
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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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- Civil society organisations
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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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
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APT (2002) A Handbook in State Obligations under the UN Convention against Torture
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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APT (2014) Beware the gift of poison fruit: Sharing information with States that torture
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Evidence extracted by torture
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- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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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 (2012) Concluding Observations: Albania, CAT/C/ALB/CO/2
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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CAT (2012) Concluding Observations: Armenia, CAT/C/ARM/CO/3
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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
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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CAT (2013) Concluding Observations: Andorra, CAT/C/AND/CO/1
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2017) J.M. v. Canada, No. 699/2015, 12 May 2017
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- 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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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CAT (2017) Rached Jaïdane v Tunisia, No. 654/2015, 11 August 2017
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- Theme
- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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CCPR (2015) G.C.A.A. v Uruguay, No. 2358/2014, 2 November 2015
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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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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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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
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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
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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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- 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
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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
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CEDAW (2015) X. and Y. v Georgia, No. 24/2009, 13 July 2015
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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
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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
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- 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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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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CPT (2004) Combating impunity
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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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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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
- Source
- African Union (AU): Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
IRCT (2009) Action against torture – A practical guide to the Istanbul Protocol – for lawyers
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Detention - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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IRCT (2012) A Practical Guide to the UPR – How NGOs can influence the Universal Periodic Review process
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document