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CCPR (2021) Andrei Mikhalenya and Aleksei Mikhalenya v Belarus, No. 3105/2018, 21 July 2021
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 10, 2022
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CCPR (2021), Devi Maya Nepal (pseudonym) v Nepal, No. 2615/2015, 15 July 2021
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 10, 2022
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CCPR (2021), Dodanpegamage Asantha Aravinda v Sri Lanka, No. 2508/2014, 2 July 2021
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- 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
- Jan 10, 2022
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CAT (2021), Ronald James Wooden, No. 759/2016, 23 July 2021
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 10, 2022
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CAT (2021), O.N. v Burundi, No. 843/2017, 22 July 2021
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 10, 2022
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CAT (2021) B.N. v Burundi, No. 858/2018, 19 July 2021
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 10, 2022
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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
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Sep 13, 2021
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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
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 9, 2021
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CCPR (2021) Irma Leticia Hidalgo Rea v Mexico, No. 3259/2018, 25 March 2021
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Corruption
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 9, 2021
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Helsinki Hungarian Committee (2021) Complaint procedures and the right to information: Briefing Paper
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Remedy & reparation
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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Helsinki Hungarian Committee (2021) Complaint procedures and the right to information: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention: Prisons
- Remedy & reparation
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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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
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- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 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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- Theme
- 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
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) Human Rights and Prisons. Manual on Human Rights Training for Prison Officials
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- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Accountability: Complaints
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Detention: Prisons
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- 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 (2006) Rule-of-Law Tools for Post-Conflict States - Prosecution initiatives
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Accountability: Transitional justice
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2008) Rule-of-Law Tools for Post-Conflict States - Reparations programmes
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Accountability: Transitional justice
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2017) Reporting to the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies Training Guide. Part I - Manual
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
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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 (2017) Reporting to the Untied Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies Training Guide. Part II - Notes for Facilitators
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
- 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 (2013) Individual Complaint Procedures under the United Nations Human Right Treaties
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- Theme
- 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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ODIHR (2012) Handbook for National Human Rights Institutions on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention Monitoring
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2003) Individual Human Rights Complaints: A Handbook for OSCE Field Personnel
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Detention: Detention - general
- Interrogations
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2011) Opinion on the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the Seimas Ombudsmen
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention Monitoring
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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 (2017) Opinion on the Draft Federal Law on the support to the National Human Rights Institution of Switzerland
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
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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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OSCE (2011) Torture, Ill-treatment and Disciplinary Proceedings in Prisons of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Other OSCE Offices
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Jul 31, 2020
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CAT (2019) Paul Zentveld v New Zealand, No. 852/2017, 4 December 2019
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Apr 9, 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
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BIM (2020) Strengthening the Rights of Suspects and Accused in Criminal Proceedings
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Jan 22, 2020
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CAT (2019) M. Z. v Belgium, No. 813/2017, 2 August 2019
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Training / Activities
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Date added
- Nov 5, 2019
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CAT (2019), V. P. v Russia, No. 780/2016, 26 July 2019
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 5, 2019
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CAT (2018) Estela Deolinda Yrusta and Alejandra del Valle Yrusta v Argentina, No. 778/2016, 23 November 2018
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- 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
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