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World Health Organisation (2020) Frequently asked questions about prevention and control of COVID-19 in prisons and other places of detention
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Detention: Quarantine
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- United Nations: World Health Organisation
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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WHO (2020) Preparedness prevention and control of COVID 19 in prisons and other places of detention:Interim Guidance
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: World Health Organisation
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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WGAD et al.(2006) Report to the Human Rights Council, E/CN.4/2006/120
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic 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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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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WGAD (2006) Country Visit Report: Nicaragua, A/HRC/4/40/Add.3
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (2006) Country Visit Report: Honduras, A/HRC/4/40/Add.4
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (2006) Country Visit Report: Ecuador, A/HRC/4/40/Add.2
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (2006) Country Visit Report: Canada, E/CN.4/2006/7/Add.2
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (2005) Country Visit Report: Belarus, E/CN.4/2005/6/Add.3
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (2003) Country Visit Report: Mexico, E/CN.4/2003/8/Add.3
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Corruption
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Military facilities
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (2003) Country Visit Report: Argentina, E/CN.4/2004/3/Add.3
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (2002) Country Visit Report: Bahrain, E/CN.4/2002/77/Add.2
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (1999) Country Visit Report: Peru, E/CN.4/1999/63/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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WGAD (1999) Country Visit Report: Indonesia, E/CN.4/2000/4/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (1998) Country Visit Report: UK, E/CN.4/1999/63/Add.3
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (1996) Country Visit Report: Nepal, E/CN.4/1997/4/Add.2
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- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (1994) Country Visit Report: Viet Nam, E/CN.4/1995/31/Add.4
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
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- Report: Country Visit Report
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WGAD (1994) Country Visit Report: Bhutan, E/CN.4/1995/31/Add.3
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- Detention: Detention - general
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
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- Report: Country Visit Report
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Volksanwaltschaft - (2019) Präventive Menschenrechtskontrolle 2018
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Detention: Military facilities
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Detention: Social welfare institutions
- 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
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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Volksanwaltschaft (2013) Report of the Austrian Ombudsman Board to the National Council and the Federal Council
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- Detention Monitoring
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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Venice Commission (2006) Opinion on the international legal Obligations of Council of Europe Member States in respect of Secret Detention Facilities and inter-state Transport of Prisoners, opinion no. 363/2005
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- Theme
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- Council of Europe: Venice Commission
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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UNSRT (2021) Report to the Human Rights Council, Corrigendum, A/HRC/46/26/Corr.1
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- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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UNSRT (2021) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/46/26
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2021) Interim Report to the GA, A/76/168
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2020) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/43/49
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2020) Interim Report to the GA, A/75/179
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2020) Country Report: Comores A/HRC/43/49/Add.1
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- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: Country Visit Report
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UNSRT (2020) Country Report Maldives, A/HRC/46/26/Add.1
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- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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UNSRT (2019) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/40/59
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Corruption
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2019) Interim report to the GA, A/74/148
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2019) Country Report: Ukraine, A/HRC/40/59/Add.3
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- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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UNSRT (2019) Country Report: Serbia and Kosovo, A/HRC/40/59/Add.1
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- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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UNSRT (2019) Country Report: Argentina, A/HRC/40/59/Add.2
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- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit 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
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
UNSRT (2018) Interim Report to the GA, A/73/207
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2017) Report to the GA, A/72/178
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- Theme
- 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
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
UNSRT (2017) Initial Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/34/54
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- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2017) Country Report: Turkey, A/HRC/37/50/Add.1
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- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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UNSRT (2017) Country Report: Mexico, A/HRC/34/54/Add.4
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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UNSRT (2017) Communications Report, A/HRC/34/54/Add.3
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- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2016) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/31/57
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Remedy & reparation
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2016) Report to the GA, A/71/298
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Interrogations
- Training / Activities
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2016) Country Report: Sri Lanka, A/HRC/34/54/Add.2
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- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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UNSRT (2016) Country Report: Mauritania, A/HRC/34/54/Add.1
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- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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UNSRT (2016) Country Report: Brazil, Corrigendum, A/HRC/31/57/Add.4/Corr.1
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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UNSRT (2016) Country Report: Brazil, A/HRC/31/57/Add.4
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
UNSRT (2016) Communications Report, A/HRC/31/57/Add.1
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2015) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/28/68
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
UNSRT (2015) Follow-up Report: Ghana, A/HRC/31/57/Add.2
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
UNSRT (2015) Follow-up Report, A/HRC/28/68/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2015) Country Report: Georgia, A/HRC/31/57/Add.3
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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UNSRT (2015) Country Report: Gambia, A/HRC/28/68/Add.4
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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UNSRT (2015) Communications Report, A/HRC/28/68/Add.1
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2015) Communications Report, A/HRC/25/60/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2014) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/25/60
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2014) Interim Report to the GA, A/69/387
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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UNSRT (2014) Country Report: Mexico, A/HRC/28/68/Add.3
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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UNSRT (2014) Country Report: Ghana, A/HRC/25/60/Add.1
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
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UNSRT (2013) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/22/53
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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UNSRT (2013) Interim Report to the GA, A/68/295
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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