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CRPD (2019), Z v Tanzania, No. 24/2014, 19 September 2019
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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UNSRT (2019) The relationship between torture and corruption
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- Video/film
- Duration
- 02:36
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- Nov 30, 2020
Learning platform
UNSRT (2019) Main challenges in the fight against torture and ill-treatment
- Media
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- Video/film
- Duration
- 03:21
- Date added
- Nov 27, 2020
Learning platform
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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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 26, 2020
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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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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 26, 2020
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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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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 26, 2020
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CEDAW (2019) J.D. at al. v Czech Republic, No. 102/2016, 16 July 2019
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- 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
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 26, 2020
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CEDAW (2019) A.J. et al. v the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, No. 126/2018, 28 October 2019
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 26, 2020
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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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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Vladimir Nuryllayev and Aibek Salayev v Turkmenistan, No. 2448/2014, 29 March 2019
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2020
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CCPR (2015) Gorka-Joseba Lupiañez Mintegi v Spain, No. 2657/2015, 21 March 2019
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- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Vladimir Chernev v Russian Federation, No. 2322/2013, 15 March 2019
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Madina Magomadova v. Russian Federation, No. 2524/ 2015, 19 March 2019
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- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2020
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CCPR (2019) T. v New Zealand, No. 2684/2015, 29 March 2019
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Fulmati Nyaya v Nepal, No. 2556/2015, 18 March 2019
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2020
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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
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Ilya Petrovets v Belarus, No. 2333/2014, 29 March 2019
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Zinaida Mukhortova v Kazakhstan, No. 2920/2016, 28 October 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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CCPR (2019) A.S. et al. v Albania, No. 2444/2014, 8 November 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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CCPR (2019) K.K. and others v Russian Federation, No. 2912/2016, 5 November 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Carlos Moreno Zamora et al. v Mexico, No. 2760/2016, 5 November 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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CCPR (2019), Kestutis Stasaitis v Lithuania, No. 2719/2016, 6 November 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Aydos Sadykov v Kazakhstan, No. 2431/2014, 6 November 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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CCPR (2019) A.K. et al. v Albania, No. 2438/2014, 8 November 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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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
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Date added
- Nov 19, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Ilkhom Ismanov and Zarina Nazhmutdinova v Tajikistan, No. 2356/2014, 5 July 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 19, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Semen Sbornov v Russian Federation, No. 2699/2015, 25 July 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 19, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Yury Orkin v Russian Federation, No. 2410/2014, 24 July 2019
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 19, 2020
Document
CCPR (2019) Bholi Pharaka v Nepal, No. 2773/2016, 15 July 2019
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 19, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Tikanath and Ramhari Kandel v Nepal, No. 2560/2015, 15 July 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 19, 2020
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CCPR (2019) María Eugenia Padilla García et al. v Mexico, No. 2750/2016, 15 July 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 19, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Ulan Nazaraliev v Kyrgyzstan, No.2697/2015, 5 July 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 19, 2020
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CCPR (2019) G.I. v Greece, No. 2582/2015, 25 July 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 19, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Vladimir Neklyaev v Belarus, No. 2383/2014, 26 July 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 19, 2020
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UNSRT (2019) Interim report to the GA, A/74/148
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Nov 13, 2020
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CEDAW (2019) DRAFT General Recommendation on Trafficking of Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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CEDAW (2019) R.S.A.A. at al v Denmark, No. 86/2015, 15 January 2019
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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CRC (2019) General Comment No. 24 (replacing General Comment No. 10) on Children's Rights in the Child Justice System, CRC/C/GC/24
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- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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SPT(2019) Country Visit Report: Spain, CAT/OP/ESP/1
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 18, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2019) Human Rights Report 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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OSCE (2019) Annual report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Other OSCE Offices
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Jul 31, 2020
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ODIHR (2019) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
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- Theme
- 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)
- Document Type
- Policy Paper/Strategies
- Date added
- Jul 31, 2020
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CAT (2019) E.L.G. v Spain, No. 818/2017, 26 November 2019
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a medical doctor
- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 9, 2020
Document
CAT (2019) Hany Khater v Morocco, No. 782/2016, 22 November 2019
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- Theme
- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 9, 2020
Document
Nowak M, Birk M & Monina G (2019) The United Nations Convention Against Torture and Its Optional Protocol: A Commentary
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Source
- Academia
- Document Type
- Academic literature
- Date added
- Jan 9, 2020
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Interview with Nadine Tunasi (2019) Give torture survivors a platform
- Media
- Type
- Video/film
- Duration
- 01:49
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2020
Learning platform
ODIHR (2019) Preventing and Addressing Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Places of Deprivation of Liberty: Standards, Approaches and Examples from the OSCE Region
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Source
- 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 2, 2019
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CPT (2019) Preventing police torture and other forms of ill-treatment
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- 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
- Source
- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Nov 14, 2019
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United Kingdom, Supreme Court (2019) R v TRA, No. EWCA Crim 2843, 13 November 2019
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Source
- National bodies: Domestic courts
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 13, 2019
Document
CAT (2019) A v Bosnia and Herzegovina, No. 854/2017, 2 August 2019
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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: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 5, 2019
Document
SPT (2019) Reply to Country Visit Report: Portugal, CAT/OP/PRT/1/add1
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Source
- National bodies: Government / Administration
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: State Report / Reply
- Date added
- Sep 13, 2019
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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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 5, 2019
Document
PRI & TIJ (2019) Global Prison Trends
- Preview
- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- May 22, 2019
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