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Irish Council for Civil Liberties (2023) Factsheet: Audio visual recording
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- Procedural safeguards: Audio/video-recording
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Apr 6, 2023
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Rights International Spain (2023) Factsheet: Legal Aid
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
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- Civil society organisations
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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- Apr 6, 2023
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Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Romania-the Helsinki Committee (2023) Factsheet: Access to a Lawyer
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
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- Civil society organisations
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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- Apr 6, 2023
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2023) Factsheet: Right to Information
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
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- Civil society organisations
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
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- Apr 6, 2023
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Omega (2017) Briefing Paper: Use of Tools of Torture in OSCE participating States
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Civil society organisations
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Dec 1, 2021
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Omega, ESRC & University Exeter (2017) Monitoring Weapons and Restraints in Places of Detention: A Practical Guide for Detention Monitors
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- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Dec 1, 2021
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BIM (2021) Open Research Behind Closed Doors, Factsheet
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention Monitoring
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Oct 21, 2021
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BIM (2021) Open Research Behind Closed Doors, Infographic (video)
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention Monitoring
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Oct 21, 2021
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BIM (2021) Open Research Behind Closed Doors, Infographic (main findings)
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention Monitoring
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Oct 21, 2021
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CoE (2021), No CM/Rec(2021)2, 31 March 2021, Recommendation on measures against the trade in goods used for the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Sep 23, 2021
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Omega (2021) Visual Guide to Law Enforcement and Security Equipment
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Civil society organisations
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Sep 22, 2021
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Omega & ODIHR (2021) Guide on Law Enforcement Equipment Most Commonly Used in the Policing of Assemblies
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Civil society organisations
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Sep 22, 2021
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Redress (2021) Practice Note: Strategic Litigation of Enforced Disappearance in Africa
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
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- Civil society organisations
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Sep 13, 2021
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ODIHR (2021) Human Rights of Armed Forces Personnel: Compendium of Standards, Good Practices and Recommendations
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Detention: Military facilities
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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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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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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ODIHR & Fair Trials (2020) Eliminating Incentives for Torture in the OSCE Region
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- 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
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- 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
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ACmHPR (2012) Johannesburg Declaration and Plan of Action on the Prevention and Criminalization of Torture in Africa
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Dec 1, 2020
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CTI (2019) UN Convention Against Torture - Explainer
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- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Sep 3, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) Human Rights and Prisons. A Compilation of InternationalHuman Rights Instrumentsconcerning the Administration of Justice
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- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Legal instrument
- Rules of Procedure
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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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
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2018) Preventing Torture - The Role of National Preventive Mechanisms. A Practical Guide
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- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2009) Rule-of-Law Tools for Post-Conflict States - National consultations on transitional justice
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- Accountability: Transitional justice
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2020) Guidance on Less-Lethal Weapons in Law Enforcement
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2018) Integrating a Gender Perspective into Human Rights Investigations. Guidance and Practice
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2008) Human Rights, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2012) The United Nations Human Right Treaty System
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- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2013) Individual Complaint Procedures under the United Nations Human Right Treaties
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- Accountability: Complaints
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2010) Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2015) Commissions of Inquiry and Fact-Finding Missions on International Human Rigths and Humanitarian Law - Guidance and Practice
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- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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ODIHR (2014) Guiding Principles on Human Rights in the Return of Trafficked Persons
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- Non refoulement & extradition
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
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- 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
- Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2018) Guidelines for Addressing the Threats and Challenges of "Foreign Terrorist Fighters" within a Human Rights Framework
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Detention: Detention - general
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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- 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
- Aug 3, 2020
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