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BIM (2019) Working towards harmonised detention standards in the EU – the role of National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Type
- Project/activity
- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Language
- English
- German
- Source
- Academia
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BIM (2018) Strengthening the rights of persons suspected or accused in criminal proceedings – the role of National Human Rights Institutions
- Type
- Project/activity
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- German
- Source
- Civil society organisations
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte (2020) Stellungnahme bezüglich der Situation von Insass*innen der Justizanstalten Österreichs während der COVID-19-Pandemie
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Language
- German
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
Selbst- und Interessenvertretung zum Maßnahmenvollzug (SiM)
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- Actor/Organisation
- Language
- German
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Liechtenstein - NPM (2019) Annual Report 2018
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- German
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
BIM (2018) Die ersten 48 Stunden: Beschuldigtenrechte im polizeilichen Ermittlungsverfahren
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Audio/video-recording
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Interrogations
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Language
- German
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Germany, Higher Regional Court Hamburg (2005) Mounir El-Motassadeq v. The State, Judgment Nr. IV-1/04, 19 August 2005
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- Theme
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
- Language
- German
- Source
- National bodies: Domestic courts
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
Volksanwaltschaft - (2019) Präventive Menschenrechtskontrolle 2018
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- Theme
- 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
- Language
- German
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
Switzerland - NPM (2019) Annual Reprt 2018
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- German
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
Switzerland - NPM (2017) Annual Report 2016
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- German
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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Germany, Federal Court of Justice (2005) Judgment No. 1 StR 140/05, 10. August 2005
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- Theme
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Language
- German
- Source
- National bodies: Domestic courts
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
Forschungszentrum Menschenrechte Universität Wien & Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte (2014) HUMAN RIGHTS TALK: Menschenrechte hinter Gittern?
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- Type
- Discussion
- Language
- German
- Duration
- 2:08:03
Learning platform
Forschungszentrum Menschenrechte Universität Wien & Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte (2014) HUMAN RIGHTS TALK: Kann Musik Folter sein?
- Media
- Type
- Discussion
- Language
- German
- Duration
- 1:20:31
Learning platform
Irish Council for Civil Liberties (2016) Inside Police Custody 2: Suspects' rights at the investigative stage of the criminal process
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- Project/activity
- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- German
- Source
- Civil society organisations
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2021) Violence in prison (German subtitles)
- Media
- Type
- Video/film
- Language
- German
Learning platform
Switzerland - NPM (2011) Annual Report 2010
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- French
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
Switzerland - NPM (2014) Annual Report 2013
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- French
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
Switzerland - NPM (2013) Annual Report 2012
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- French
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
Switzerland- NPM (2012) Annual Report 2011
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- French
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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Journal Officiel De La Republique Francaise (2020) Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Language
- French
- Source
- National bodies: Government / Administration
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
CTI (2020) Irrecevabilité des Preuves Obtenues sous la Torture et au Moyen de Mauvais Traitements: Procédures et Pratiques
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- Theme
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- French
- Source
- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
France - NPM (2020) Soins Sans Consentement et Droits Fondamentaux
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- Theme
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Language
- French
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
CRC (2020) E. H. R. S., A. I. R. S. and A. H. R. S v Argentina, No. 90/2019, 5 July 2019
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- French
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Discontinuance
Document
SPT (2021) NPM Reply to the Advisory Report: Switzerland, CAT/OP/CHE/CNPMRO/1
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- French
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: State Report / Reply
Document
CAT (2018) X v Switzerland, No. 704/2015, 17 May 2018
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- Theme
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- French
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
Document
CAT (2018) K. B. v Canada, No. 739/2016, 15 November 2018
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- Theme
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- French
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Discontinuance
Document
Mauritania - NPM (2017) Annual Report 2016/2017
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- French
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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CAT (2017) Concluding Observartions: Cameroon, CAT/C/CMR/CO/5
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- Language
- French
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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CAT (2018) Concluding Observations: Senegal, CAT/C/SEN/CO/4
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- Language
- French
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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CAT (2018) Concluding Observations: Mauritania, CAT/C/MRT/CO/2
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- Language
- French
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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CTI (2019) Procédures et Mécanismes de Plainte et D'Enquête au Niveau National sur les Actes de Torture et les Mauvais Traitements
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Language
- French
- Source
- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
Document
CCPR (2020) Mohammed Dafar v Algeria, No. 2580/2015, 16 October 2020
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Detention: Military facilities
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Language
- French
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
Luxembourg - NPM (2013) Annual Report 2011/2012 (Part 1)
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- French
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
CAT (1997) Gorki Ernesto Tapia Paez v Sweden, No. 39/1996, 28 April 1997
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- Theme
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- French
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
France - NPM (2020) Annual Report 2019
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- French
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - CPT
- Type
- Actor/Organisation
- Language
- English
- French
- Source
- Council of Europe: European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
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CAT (2015) Saidi Ntahiraja v Burundi, No. 575/2013, 3 August 2015
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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: Detention rules/ discipline
- Interrogations
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- French
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
Rapporteur sur les Prisons et les Conditions de Détention (2000) Mission sur Prisons et conditions de détention: République centrafricaine
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- French
- Source
- African Union (AU): Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
CAT (2019) S. B. v Switzerland, No. 894/2018, 15 November 2019
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- Theme
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- French
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Discontinuance
Document
Switzerland - NPM (2015) Annual Report 2014
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- French
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
France - NPM (2020) Les fondamentaux des Personnes Privées de Liberté à l'Epreuve de la Crise Sanitaire
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Language
- French
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
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France - NPM (2020) Les Violences Interpersonelles dans Les Lieux de Privation de Liberté
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- French
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
CAT (2019) X v Canada, No. 791/2016, 5 August 2019
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- Theme
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- French
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
Document
Switzerland - NPM (2019) La prise en charge médicale dans les établissements de privation de liberté en Suisse 2018-2019 (Résumé du rapport thématique)
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Language
- French
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
Document
SPT (2021) NPM Advisory Visit Report: Senegal, CAT/OP/SEN/RONPM/1
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- French
- Source
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
Document
CRC (2021) M.K.A.H. v Switzerland, No. 95/2019, 22 September 2021
- Preview
- Theme
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- French
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
Document
Luxembourg - NPM (2013) Annual Report 2011/2012 (Part 2)
- Preview
- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- French
- Source
- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
Document
UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (1990) Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Detention: Detention - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Office on Drugs and Crime
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
Document
CAT (1991) R. E. G. v Turkey, No. 4/1990, 29 April 1991
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- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CAT (1998) Guidelines on periodic reports, CAT/C/14/Rev 1
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- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Document
CAT (1995) A. E. v Switzerland, No. 24/1995, 2 May 1995
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- Theme
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CAT (1995) X. v Spain, No. 23/1995, 15 November 1995
- Preview
- Theme
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
Document
CAT (1996) Annual Report, A/51/44
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- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
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CAT (1996) Inquiry procedure: Egypt, A5144 (§ 180-222)
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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
BIM and HRIC (2015) Enhancing the impact of national preventive mechanisms
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Language
- English
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Academic literature
Document
UNGA (1988) Body of Principles for the Protection of all Persons under any Form of Detention or Imprisonment
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: General Assembly
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
Document
CAT (2002) Concluding Observations: Uzbekistan, CAT/C/CR/28/7
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- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
Document
CAT (2002) Concluding Observations: Venezuela, CAT/C/CR/29/2
- Preview
- Language
- English
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Concluding Observations
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