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CAT (1996) Inquiry procedure: Egypt, A5144 (§ 180-222)
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Inquiry Procedure
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CAT (2003) Inquiry procedure: Mexico, CAT/C/75, 26 May 2003
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Inquiry Procedure
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CAT (2005) R. D. v Sweden, No. 220/2002, 2 May 2005
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2006) S. P. A. v Canada, No. 282/2005, 7 November 2006
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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CAT (2006) A. A. C. v Sweden, No. 227/2003, 16 November 2006
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2009) Besim Osmani v Serbia, No. 261/2005, 8 May 2009
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2012) Fatou Sonko v Spain, No. 368/2008, 25 November 2011
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2013) Oleg Evloev v Kazakhstan, No. 441/2010, 5 November 2013
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- Accountability: Complaints
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2014) Inquiry procedure: Lebanon, A/69/44 (§100-115; Annex XIII)
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Inquiry Procedure
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UNSRT (2016) Country Report: Brazil, A/HRC/31/57/Add.4
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: Country Visit Report
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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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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2017) Report to the GA, A/72/178
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2018) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/37/50
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2012) Communications Report, A/HRC/19/61/Add.4
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
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- English
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: Thematic Report
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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
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CAT (2019) Hany Khater v Morocco, No. 782/2016, 22 November 2019
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- 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
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ODIHR (2014) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
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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: General / Annual Report
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OSCE (2011) Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Other OSCE Offices
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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OSCE (2010) Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- English
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Other OSCE Offices
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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OSCE (2005) Human Rights and Law Enforcement - Booklet of Human Rights for Police
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- English
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Other OSCE Offices
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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OSCE (2016) Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- English
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Other OSCE Offices
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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OSCE (2015) Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- English
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Other OSCE Offices
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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OSCE (2014) Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Other OSCE Offices
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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ODIHR (2006) Common Responsibility: Commitments and Implementation
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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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
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OSCE (2013) Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Other OSCE Offices
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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ODIHR (2006) Annual Report
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
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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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- Report: General / Annual Report
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ODIHR (2007) Annual Report
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Training / Activities
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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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- Report: General / Annual Report
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights & APT & APF (2010) Preventing Torture - An Operational Guide for National Human Rights Institutions
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- Civil society organisations
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2019) Human Rights Report 2019
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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WGAD (2006) Situation of Detainees at Guantánamo Bay, E/CN.4/2006/120
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Military facilities
- Detention: Transfers
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- English
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
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- Report: Thematic Report
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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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- 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
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- General Comment
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CCPR (2019) Zinaida Mukhortova v Kazakhstan, No. 2920/2016, 28 October 2019
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2019) S.D.P.T. et al. v Canada, No. 2034/2011, 29 March 2019
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CMW (2013) General comment No. 2 on the rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and their families, CMW/C/GC/2
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
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- General Comment
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CMW/CRC (2017) Joint general comment No. 4 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No. 23 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on State obligations regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration in countries of origin, transit, destination and return, CMW/C/GC/4-CRC/C/GC/23
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Immigration detention
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
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- General Comment
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CRPD (2017) X v United Republic of Tanzania, No. 22/2014, 18 August 2017
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CRPD (2018) Munir al Adam v Saudi Arabia, No. 38/2016, 20 September 2018
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CEDAW (2020) S.F.M. v Spain, No. 138/2018, 28 February 2020
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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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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CEDAW (2018) H.D. v Denmark, No. 76/2014, 9 July 2018
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CEDAW (2013) M.E.N. v Denmark, No.35/2011, 6 October 2011
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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
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
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CEDAW (2013) M.S. v Denmark, No. 40/2012, 22 July 2013
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CEDAW (2019) A.N.A. v Denmark, No. 94/2015, 15 July 2019
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- 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
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CEDAW (2019) R.S.A.A. et al. v Denmark, No. 86/2015, 15 July 2019
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- 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
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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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CEDAW (2019) A.R.I. v Denmark, No. 96/2015, 25 February 2019
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CEDAW (2014) S.O. v Canada, No. 49/2013, 27 October 2014
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- 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
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CCPR (2017) B.Z. et al. v Albania, No. 2837/2016, 8 November 2017
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CCPR (2017) Dzhuraboy Boboev v Tajikistan, No. 2173/2012, 19 July 2017
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2017) Amarasinghe Arachchige Simon Amarasinghe v Sri Lanka, No. 2209/2012, 13 July 2017
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2015) M. v Belgium, No. 2176/2012, 30 March 2015
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- English
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CCPR (2015) Mamatkarim Ernazarov v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2054/2011, 25 March 2015
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2014) Vasily Yuzepchuk v Belarus, No. 1906/2009, 24 October 2014
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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BIM (2020) From Law to Practice: Strengthening Procedural Rights in Police Custody
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- Project/activity
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Audio/video-recording
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
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CCPR (2014) Olga Kozulina v Belarus, No. 1773/2008, 21 October 2014
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Detention: Prisons
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2014) Hadhoum Hmeed Mohamed v Libya, No. 2046/2011, 17 October 2014
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CCPR (2014) Milan Vojnović v Croatia, No. 2068/2011, 30 October 2014
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2004) Human Rights Standards and Practice for the Police. Expanded Pcoket Book on Human Rights for the Police
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Detention - general
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
ODIHR (2020) Human Rights and Gender Equality during Public Emergencies
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Detention: Detention - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
CAT (1999) Josu Arkauz Arana v France, No. 63/1997, 9 November 1999
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (1994) Inquiry procedure: Turkey, A/49/44 (§172-177)
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
- Language
- English
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Inquiry Procedure
Document
CAT (1997) Cyril Le Gayic et al. v France, No. 46/1996, 9 May 1997
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CAT (2001) S.V. et al. v Canada, No. 49/1996, 15 May 2001
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2003) Imed Abdelli v Tunisia, No. 188/2001, 14 November 2002
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2007) Ali Ben Salem v Tunisia, No. 269/2005, 7 November 2007
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2008) Kostadin Nikolov Keremedchiev v Bulgaria, No. 257/2004, 11 November 2008
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2011) Dmytro Slyusar v Ukraine, No. 353/2008, 14 November 2011
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2013) Djamila Bendib v Algeria, No. 376/2009, 8 November 2013
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2015) Kwami Mopongo and others v Morocco, No. 321/2007, 7 November 2014
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2015) Déogratias Niyonzima v Burundi, No. 514/2012, 21 November 2014
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2015) X. v Burundi, No. 553/2013, 10 August 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2016) B. R. v Italy, No. 598/2014, 29 April 2016
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CAT (2016) X. v. Switzerland, No. 686/2015, 5 December 2016
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CAT (2014) Rasim Bairamov v Kazakhstan, No. 497/2012, 14 May 2014
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2017) G.N. v Burundi, No. 579/2013, 1 May 2017
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2017) Olga Shestakova v Russia, No. 712/2015, 28 November 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CPT (2010) Electrical discharge weapons
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Language
- English
- Source
- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
CCPR (1992) General Comment No. 20 on article 7 (Prohibition of Torture or Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment), CCPR/C/GC/20
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- General Comment
Document
CCPR (1994) Barbarín Mojica v Dominican Republic, No. 449/1991, 15 July 1994
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2006) Concluding Observations: United States, CCPR/C/USA/CO/3/Rev.1
- Preview
- Theme
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
Document
CCPR (2012) Joyce Nawila Chiti v Zambia, No. 1303/2004, 26 July 2012
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2013) Svetlana Zhuk v Belarus, No. 1910/2009, 30 October 2013
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CPT (2017) Inspection of a prison medical service by a CPT doctor - Checklist
- Preview
- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Language
- English
- Source
- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
United Kingdom, House of Lords (2005) A et al v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, UKHL 71, 8 December 2005
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Language
- English
- Source
- National bodies: Domestic courts
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
ECtHR (2018), Hovhannisyan v. Armenia, no. 18419/13
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CPT (2013) Documenting and reporting medical evidence of ill-treatment
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Language
- English
- Source
- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
IRCT (2013) Engaging with European Union foreign policy on the ground – An IRCT guide
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
IRCT (2013) Recognising victims of torture in national asylum procedures – A comparative overview of early identification of victims and their access to medico-legal reports in asylum-receiving countries
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
IACHR (2011) Report on the Human Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty in the Americas
- Preview
- 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
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Prisons
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organisation of American States (OAS): Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
Czech Republic - NPM (2017) Report on systematic visits carried out by the public defender of rights 2016
- Preview
- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Transfers
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
CAT (2018) Estela Deolinda Yrusta and Alejandra del Valle Yrusta v Argentina, No. 778/2016, 23 November 2018
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
APF, APT & Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2010) Preventing Torture: An Operational Guide for National Human Rights Institutions
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
ODIHR (2015) Report on the Human Rights Situation of Detainees at Guantanamo
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Interrogations
- Remedy & reparation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
ODIHR (2011) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
ODIHR (2012) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
ODIHR (2013) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
ODIHR (2010) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
ODIHR (2006) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
ODIHR (2005) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
ODIHR (2004) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
ODIHR (2001) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
ODIHR (2002) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
ODIHR (2000) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
OSCE (2019) Annual report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Other OSCE Offices
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
ODIHR (2014) Annual Report
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
ODIHR (2005) Annual Report
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2017) UN Human Rights Report 2017
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
ODIHR (2008) Annual Report
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2016) The Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
FRA (2017) Current Migration Situation in the EU: Torture, Trauma and its Possible Impact on Drug Use
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- Language
- English
- Source
- European Union (EU): European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
CCPR (2020) Zhanysbek Khalmamato v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2384/2014, 13 March 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2020) Rizvan Taysumov et al. v Russian Federation, No. 2339/2014, 11 March 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2019) Fulmati Nyaya v Nepal, No. 2556/2015, 18 March 2019
- Preview
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CRPD (2018) General comment No. 6 on equality and nondiscrimination, CRPD/C/GC/6
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- General Comment
Document
CEDAW (2018) S.F.A. v Denmark, No. 85/2015, 26 February 2018
- Preview
- 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: Terrorism
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CEDAW (2018) M.K.M. v Denmark, No. 81/2015, 29 October 2018
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CEDAW (2018) S.A.O. v Denmark, No.101/2016, 29 October 2018
- Preview
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
Associazione Antigone (2020) Monitoring solitary confinement and other forms of isolation and segregation in prison
- Media
- Type
- Lecture/Webinar
- Language
- English
- Duration
- 17:15
Learning platform
ACmHPR (2012) Johannesburg Declaration and Plan of Action on the Prevention and Criminalization of Torture in Africa
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Language
- English
- Source
- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
CEDAW (2020) F.H.A. v Denmark, No. 108/2016, 17 February 2020
- Preview
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CEDAW (2019) A.J. et al. v the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, No. 126/2018, 28 October 2019
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CEDAW (2019) J.D. at al. v Czech Republic, No. 102/2016, 16 July 2019
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2018) Ahmed Khaleel v the Maldives, No. 2785/2016, 27 July 2018
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Audio/video-recording
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Prisons
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2018) Gyan Devi Bolakhe v. Nepal, No. 2658/2015, 19 July 2018
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2017) Arsen Ambaryan v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2162/2012, 28 July 2017
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2017) Z.Z. v Australia, No. 2941/2017, 21 July 2017
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2017) J.B. v Australia, No. 2798/2016, 21 July 2017
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2017) Basem Ahmed Issa Yassin et al. v Canada, No. 2285/2013, 26 July 2017
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2018) Annadurdy Khadzhiyev et al. v Turkmenistan, No. 2252/2013, 6 April 2018
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2017) X. v Sri Lanka, No. 2256/2013, 27 July 2017
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2016) “IElpida”—the Cultural Association of Greek Gypsies from Halandri and Suburbs, and Stylianos Kalamiotis v Greece, No. 2242/2013, 3 November 2016
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2015) K.S. v Uzbekistan, No. 2174/2012, 23 July 2015
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Discontinuance
Document
CCPR (2015) Andrei Burdyko v Belarus, No. 2017/2010, 15 July 2015
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2015) Yuriy Bakur v Belarus, No. 1902/2009, 15 July 2015
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2015) Misilin Nona Guneththige and Piyawathie Guneththige v Sri Lanka, No. 2087/2011, 30 March 2015
- Preview
- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Transfers
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2015) Yuba Kumari Katwal v Nepal, No.2000/2010, 1 April 2015
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2014) John Njie Monika v Cameroon, No. 1965/2010, 21 October 2014
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2021) Monitoring prison violence: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
- Language
- English
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (2021) Prisoners in a Situation of Vulnerability - Briefing Paper
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Prisons
- Language
- English
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
CCPR (2020) Sharobodin Yuldashev v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2405/2014, 29 October 2020
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2020) V.I. v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2451/2014, 6 November 2020
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2002) Hajrizi Dzemajl et al. v Yugoslavia, No. 161/2000, 21 November 2002
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2002) Inquiry procedure: Sri Lanka, A/57/44 (§ 117-195)
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Inquiry Procedure
Document
CAT (2005) A. A. v Azerbaijan, No. 247/2004, 25 November 2005
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CAT (2012) A. A. v Denmark, No. 412/2010, 13 November 2012
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2012) Alexander Gerasimov v Kazakhstan, No. 433/2010, 24 May 2012
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2014) Diory Barry v Morocco, No. 372/2009, 19 May 2014
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2015) H.B. v Algeria, No. 494/2012, 6 August 2015
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2015) Hilda Mariolyn Hernández Colmenarez and Francisco Arturo Guerrero Sánchez v Venezuela, No. 456/2011, 15 May 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2017) Aleksei Ushenin v. Kazakhstan, No. 651/2015, 12 May 2017
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2017) D.C. and D.E. v Georgia, No. 573/2013, 12 May 2017
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Interrogations
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2017) J.B. v Switzerland, No. 721/2015, 17 November 2017
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
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
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Academic literature
Document
UNSRT (1999) Report to the GA, A/54/426
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- Theme
- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
UNSRT (2000) Interim Report to the GA, A/55/290
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
UNSRT (2001) Report to the GA, A/56/156
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
UNSRT (2002) Report to the GA, A/57/173
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
UNSRT (2003) Report to the GA, A/58/120
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Remedy & reparation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
UNSRT (2004) Report to the GA, A/59/324
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
UNSRT (2012) Interim Report to the GA, A/67/279
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
UNSRT (2006) Report to the Commission on Human Rights, E/CN.4/2006/120
- Preview
- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Interrogations
- Detention: Military facilities
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
UNSRT (2007) Country Report: Sudan/Darfur, A/HRC/5/6
- Preview
- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
UNSRT (2007) Country Report: Sudan/Darfur (Final Report), A/HRC/6/19
- Preview
- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
OMCT (2014) Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights: A Practitioner’s Handbook
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, adopted in 1985, entered into force in 1987
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organisation of American States (OAS): Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
Document
CPTA (2012) Report of the Promotion Mission to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
- Preview
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- African Union (AU): Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
ACHPR (2012) Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Preview
- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Document Type
- Inquiry Procedure
Document
ODIHR (2018) Opinion on Definition of Torture and its Absolute Prohibition in Polish Legislation
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
ODIHR (2014) Opinion on Article 235 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Language
- English
- Source
- 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
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
ODIHR (2019) Preventing and Addressing Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Places of Deprivation of Liberty: Standards, Approaches and Examples from the OSCE Region
- Preview
- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
ODIHR (2019) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Policy Paper/Strategies
Document
ODIHR (2004) Annual Report
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
ODIHR (2003) Annual Report
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
ODIHR (2003) Individual Human Rights Complaints: A Handbook for OSCE Field Personnel
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Detention: Detention - general
- Interrogations
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
ODIHR (2005) Human Dimension Commitments: Chronological Compilation
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
Document
OSCE (2017) Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Other OSCE Offices
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2018) Human Rights Report 2018
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) A Pocketbook of International Human Rights Standards for Prison Officials
- Preview
- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Detention: Prisons
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
SPT(2019) Country Visit Report: Spain, CAT/OP/ESP/1
- Preview
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) Selected Decisions of the Human Rights Committee under the Optional Protocol - Volume 5
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CEDAW (2019) R.S.A.A. at al v Denmark, No. 86/2015, 15 January 2019
- Preview
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2019) Semen Sbornov v Russian Federation, No. 2699/2015, 25 July 2019
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2019) Yury Orkin v Russian Federation, No. 2410/2014, 24 July 2019
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2019) Juma Nazarov et al. v Turkmenistan, No. 2302/ 2013, 25 July 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Prisons
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
Document
CCPR (2019) Carlos Moreno Zamora et al. v Mexico, No. 2760/2016, 5 November 2019
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- 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
- Preview
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- General Comment
Document
CCPR (2020) S.H. v Finland, No. 2381/2014, 13 March 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2019) T. v New Zealand, No. 2684/2015, 29 March 2019
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2015) Gorka-Joseba Lupiañez Mintegi v Spain, No. 2657/2015, 21 March 2019
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2019) Vladimir Nuryllayev and Aibek Salayev v Turkmenistan, No. 2448/2014, 29 March 2019
- Preview
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
OHCHR (2009) Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Fact Sheet No. 6 Rev. 3
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
CCPR (2019) Vladimir Chernev v Russian Federation, No. 2322/2013, 15 March 2019
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2019) Ilya Petrovets v Belarus, No. 2333/2014, 29 March 2019
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CEDAW (2014) Angela González Carreño v Spain, No. 47/2012, 16 July 2014
- Preview
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CEDAW (2014) N. v Netherlands, No. 39/2012, 17 February 2014
- Preview
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CEDAW (2011) T.P.F. v Peru, No. 22/2009, 17 October 2011
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- 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) S.J.A. v Denmark, No. 79/2014, 6 November 2017
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CEDAW (2017) O.G. v Russian Federation, No. 91/2015, 6 November 2017
- Preview
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CEDAW (2018) A.S. v Denmark, No. 80/2015, 26 February 2018
- Preview
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2020) Monitoring violence in prison
- Media
- Type
- Lecture/Webinar
- Language
- English
- Duration
- 33:02
Learning platform
CEDAW (2014) Y.C. v Denmark, No. 59/2013, 24 October 2014
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CEDAW (2015) Y.W. v Denmark, No. 51 2013, 2 March 2015
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CEDAW (2016) X. v Austria, No. 67/2014, 11 July 2016
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2018) Sarita Devi Sharma et al. v Nepal, No. 2364/2014, 6 April 2018
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2018) Maya Abromchik v Belarus, No. 2228/2012, 20 March 2018
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2018) Andrei Sannikov v Belarus, No. 2212/2012, 6 April 2018
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a medical doctor
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2018) R. E. v the Russian Federation, No. 2249/2013, 19 July 2018
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2018) Nell Toussaint v Canada, No. 2348/2014, 24 July 2018
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2016) G.E. v the Netherlands, No. 2299/2013, 3 November 2016
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2017) M.Z.B.M. v Denmark, No. 2593/2015, 20 March 2017
- Preview
- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2017) Siobhán Whelan v Ireland, No. 2425/2014, 17 March 2017
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2016) E.M.M. v Zambia, No. 1145/2002, 11 August 2016
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Discontinuance
Document
CCPR (2015) John-Jacques Lumbala Tshidika v Democratic Republic of the Congo, No. 2214/2012, 5 November 2015
- Preview
- Theme
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2015) Milan Mandić v Bosnia and Herzegovina, No. 2064/2011, 5 November 2015
- Preview
- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2015) Emira Kadirić and Dino Kadirić v Bosnia and Herzegovina, No. 2048/2011, 5 November 2015
- Preview
- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2015) Pavel Selyun v Belarus, No. 2289/2013, 6 November 2015
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2015) M.T. v Uzbekistan, No. 2234/2013, 23 July 2015
- Preview
- Theme
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2021) Monitoring prison violence: Briefing Paper
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
- Language
- English
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
Document
CTI (2021) Positive Discipline and Alternatives to Corporal Punishment of Children
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
CCPR (1990) Selected Decisions of the Human Rights Committee und the Optional Protocol - Volume 2
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2020) Hom Bahadur Bagale v Nepal, No. 2777/2016, 2 November 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2020) Kazybek Usekeev v Kyrgyzstan, No. 3000/2017, 6 November 2020
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Military facilities
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2020) Oleg Boyarkin and T. P. v Kyrgyzstan, 2432/2014, 30 October 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (1998) E.O. Akhidenor et al v Canada, No. 67/1997, 17 Noveber 1998
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Training / Activities
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CAT (1998) G.R.B. v Sweden, No. 83/1997, 15 May 1998
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
Asean Human Rights Declaration
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
Document
CAT (2003) T. M. v Sweden, No. 228/2003, 18 November 2003
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2014) Boniface Ntikarahera v Burundi, No. 503/2012, 12 May 2014
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) entry into force 3 September 1981
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: General Assembly
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
Document
ACmHPR, OHCHR & APT (2008) The Robben Island Guidelines (2nd ed)
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
Document
UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, adopted in 1984, entered into force in 1987 (CAT)
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: General Assembly
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
Document
UNSRT (1998) Report to the Commission on Human Rights, E/CN.4/1998/38
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
UNSRT (2006) Communications Report, E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.1
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
UNSRT (2007) Communications Report, A/HRC/4/33/Add.1
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
IACHR (2015) Towards the closure of Guantánamo
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organisation of American States (OAS): Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
IRCT (2004) Medical physical examination of alleged torture victims – A practical guide to the Istanbul Protocol – for medical doctors
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
IRCT (2009) Shedding light on a dark practice – Using the Istanbul Protocol to document torture
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
IRCT (2013) Getting the evidence – Countering torture through medico-legal documentation
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
IRCT (2013) Engaging with State reviews in the UN Committee against Torture: A practical guide
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
CPT (2019) Preventing police torture and other forms of ill-treatment
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Interrogations
- Language
- English
- Source
- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
Interview with Nadine Tunasi (2019) Give torture survivors a platform
- Media
- Type
- Video/film
- Language
- English
- Duration
- 01:49
Learning platform
Fair Trials (2018) Dismantling the Tools of Oppression: Ending the Misuse of INTERPOL
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
ODIHR (2008) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
ODIHR (2007) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
OSCE et al. (2013) Trafficking in Human Beings Amounting to Torture and other Forms of Ill-treatment
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
ODIHR (2007) Human Rights Defenders in the OSCE Region: Our Collective Conscience
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
ODIHR (2008) Countering Terrorism, Protecting Human Rights: A Manual
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
OSCE (2012) Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Other OSCE Offices
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (1997) Human Rights and Law Enforcement. A Manual on Human Rights Training for the Police
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ( 2005) Selected Decisions of the Human Rigths Committee under the Optional Protocol - Volume 6
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2006) Selected Decisions of the Human Rights Committee under the Optional Protocol - Volume 7
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2020) Shukurillo Osmonov v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2710/2015, 10 March 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2020) Rachid Braih v Algeria, No. 2924/2016, 27 March 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2019) Aydos Sadykov v Kazakhstan, No. 2431/2014, 6 November 2019
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2020) Gennady Yakovitsky and AleksandraYakovitskaya v Belarus, No. 2789/2016, 12 March 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CRPD (2016) General comment No. 3 on women and girls with disabilities, CRPD/C/GC/3
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- General Comment
Document
CRPD (2014) General comment No. 1 on equal recognition before the law, CRPD/C/GC/1
- Preview
- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- General Comment
Document
CRPD (2018) Y v United Republic of Tanzania 2014, No. 23/2014, 31 August 2018
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2019) Madina Magomadova v. Russian Federation, No. 2524/ 2015, 19 March 2019
- Preview
- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CED (2016) Estela Deolinda Yrusta and Alejandra del Valle Yrusta v Argentina, No. 1/2013, 11 March 2016
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on Enforced Disappearances
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CRPD (2016) Marlon James Noble v Australia, No. 7/2012, 2 September 2016
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Prisons
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CRPD (2017) L.M.L. v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, No. 27/2015, 24 March 2017
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2017) Fakhridin Ashirov v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2435/2014, 28 July 2017
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Prisons
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2017) Anton Batanov v the Russian Federation, N0. 2532/2015, 28 July 2017
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2017) Purna Maya v Nepal, No. 2245/2013, 17 March 2017
- Preview
- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Military facilities
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2016) Akmurat Halbayewich Yegendurdyyew v Turkmenistan, No. 2227/2012, 14 July 2016
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Prisons
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2016) V.L. v Belarus, No. 2084/2011, 30 March 2016
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CCPR (2016) Mejdoub Chani v Algeria, No. 2297/2013, 11 March 2016
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2016) F.J. et al. v Australia, No. 2233/2013, 22 March 2016
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- Theme
- 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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CCPR (2020) E.I.G.R. v Spain, No. 3639/2019, 6 November 2020
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CRPD (2020) N.N. v Germany, No. 29/2015, 28 August 2020
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Discontinuance
Document
CRPD (2021) G.J.D. v Australia, No. 36/2016, 19 March 2021
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CRPD (2019), Z v Tanzania, No. 24/2014, 19 September 2019
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
UNSRT (2019) Interim report to the GA, A/74/148
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
UNSRT (2020) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/43/49
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
CAT (2003) Dhaou Belgacem Thabti v Tunisia, No. 187/2001, 14 November 2003
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2004) Helle Jensen v Denmark, No. 202/2002, 5 May 2004
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CAT (2004) Inquiry procedure: The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, A5944 (§156-240)
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Inquiry Procedure
Document
CAT (2008) Saadia Ali v Tunisia, No. 291/2006, 21 November 2008
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Interrogations
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2008) L. J. R. v Australia, No. 316/2007, 11 November 2008
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2015) N. B. v Russian Federation, No. 577/2013, 25 November 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CAT (2015) N. Z. v Kazakhstan, No. 495/2012, 28 November 2014
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
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
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
Document
CAT (2015) Patrice Gahungu v Burundi, No. 522/2012, 10 August 2015
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2015) Ramiro Ramírez Martínez et al v Mexico, No. 500/2012, 4 August 2015
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Military facilities
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2016) Abdulrahman Kabura v. Burundi, No. 549/2013, 11 November 2016
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2016) Elaïba v Tunisia, No. 551/2013, 6 May 2016
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2016) M. Ennaâma Asfari v. Morocco, No. 606/2014, 15 November 2016
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2017) Ashim Rakishev and Dmitry Rakishev v Kazakhstan, No. 661/2015, 31 July 2017
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
CAT (2017) Inquiry procedure: Egypt, A/72/44 (§ 58-71)
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Inquiry Procedure
Document
CAT (2017) Damien Ndarisigaranye v Burundi, No. 493/2012, 10 November 2017
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
UNSRT (2009) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/10/44
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document