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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
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 9, 2021
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CRPD (2014) General comment No. 1 on equal recognition before the law, CRPD/C/GC/1
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CRPD (2016) General comment No. 3 on women and girls with disabilities, CRPD/C/GC/3
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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
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CRPD (2018) General comment No. 6 on equality and nondiscrimination, CRPD/C/GC/6
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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
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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OHCHR (2009) Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Fact Sheet No. 6 Rev. 3
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CMW/CRC (2017) Joint general comment No. 4 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No. 23 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on State obligations regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration in countries of origin, transit, destination and return, CMW/C/GC/4-CRC/C/GC/23
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Immigration detention
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- United Nations: Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CMW (2013) General comment No. 2 on the rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and their families, CMW/C/GC/2
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
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- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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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
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Nov 13, 2020
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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
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- 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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- 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
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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CEDAW (2013) General Recommendation No. 30 On Women in Conflict Prevention, Conflict and Post Conflict Situations, CEDAW/C/GC/30
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Transitional justice
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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CRC (2006) General Comment No. 8 on the Right of the Child to Protection from Corporal Punishment and Other Cruel or Degrading Forms of Punishment (arts. 19; 28, para. 2; and 37, inter alia), CRC/C/GC/8
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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CRC (2011) General Comment No. 13 on the Right to Freedom From all Forms of Violence, CRC/C/GC/13
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- 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 Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- 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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- 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
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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UNODC & Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2017) Resource book on the use of force and firearms in law enforcement
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Interrogations
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- United Nations: Office on Drugs and Crime
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) A Pocketbook of International Human Rights Standards for Prison Officials
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- Alternative measures to detention
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- 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
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (1997) Human Rights and Law Enforcement. A Manual on Human Rights Training for the Police
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2004) Human Rights Standards and Practice for the Police. Expanded Pcoket Book on Human Rights for the Police
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Detention - general
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- 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
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2018) Human Rights Report 2018
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
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- 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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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
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- 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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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2016) The Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- 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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- Theme
- 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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- Theme
- 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 (2017) UN Human Rights Report 2017
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
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- 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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APF, APT & Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2010) Preventing Torture: An Operational Guide for National Human Rights Institutions
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Training / Activities
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2019
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UNSRT (2006) Report to the Commission on Human Rights, E/CN.4/2006/120
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Interrogations
- Detention: Military facilities
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
- 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: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
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CEDAW (2017) General Recommendation No. 35 on Gender-based Violence against Women, updating General Recommendation No. 19, CEDAW/C/GC/35
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 26, 2018
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UNGA (1982) Principles of Medical Ethics
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
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- United Nations: General Assembly
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
- Date added
- May 8, 2018
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