Search Tips
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2020) Guidance on Less-Lethal Weapons in Law Enforcement
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
Document
Norway - NPM (2020) Use of Restraint Beds in Norwegian Prisons
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
Document
UNSRT (2020) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/43/49
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Nov 13, 2020
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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
Document
CCPR (2020) S.H. v Finland, No. 2381/2014, 13 March 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
Document
CCPR (2020) Viktor Taran v Ukraine, No. 2368/2014, 12 March 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a medical doctor
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
Document
CCPR (2020) D.G. et al. v The Philippines, No. 2568/2015, 13 March 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
Document
CCPR (2020) Saodat Kulieva v Tajikistan, No. 2707/2015, 10 March 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
Document
CCPR (2020) Simón Mora Carrer et al. v Venezuela, No. 3018/2017, 11 March 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
Document
CCPR (2020) M.Z. v Uzbekistan, No. 2689/2015, 13 March 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
Document
CEDAW (2020) S.F.M. v Spain, No. 138/2018, 28 February 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 26, 2020
Document
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2020) Monitoring violence in prison
- Media
- Type
- Lecture/Webinar
- Duration
- 33:02
- Date added
- Dec 4, 2020
Learning platform
Associazione Antigone (2020) Monitoring solitary confinement and other forms of isolation and segregation in prison
- Media
- Type
- Lecture/Webinar
- Duration
- 17:15
- Date added
- Dec 4, 2020
Learning platform
Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) (2020) Monitoring requests and complaint procedures
- Media
- Type
- Lecture/Webinar
- Duration
- 11:46
- Date added
- Dec 4, 2020
Learning platform
Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) (2020) Monitoring groups of prisoners in a situation of vulnerabilty
- Media
- Type
- Lecture/Webinar
- Duration
- 55:24
- Date added
- Dec 4, 2020
Learning platform
ODIHR & Fair Trials (2020) Eliminating Incentives for Torture in the OSCE Region
- Preview
- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Interrogations
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Dec 7, 2020
Document
ODIHR & Fair Trials (2020) Eliminating incentives for torture in criminal justice systems - Launch of ODIHR and Fair Trial’s new publication
- Media
- Type
- Lecture/Webinar
- Duration
- 1:14:05
- Date added
- Dec 7, 2020
Learning platform
New Zealand Human Rights Commission (2020) Time for a Paradigm Change: A Follow Up Review of Seclusion and Restraint Practices in New Zealand
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Source
- Academia
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Jan 11, 2021
Document
BIM (2020) From Law to Practice: Strengthening Procedural Rights in Police Custody
- Type
- Project/activity
- Theme
- 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
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Date added
- Mar 8, 2021
Actors & Projects map
CCPR (2020) Bakhadyr Dzhuraev v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2160/2012, 29 October 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 7, 2021
Document
CCPR (2020) Banyusha Khalykovna Rezazade v Kyrgyzstan, No. 2866/2016, 6 November 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 7, 2021
Document
CCPR (2020) Déborah Kitumaini et al. v DRC, No. 2731/2016, 6 November 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 7, 2021
Document
CCPR (2020) E.I.G.R. v Spain, No. 3639/2019, 6 November 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Sep 7, 2021
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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 7, 2021
Document
CCPR (2020) Kazybek Usekeev v Kyrgyzstan, No. 3000/2017, 6 November 2020
- Preview
- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Military facilities
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 7, 2021
Document