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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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- 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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CEDAW (2021) Magdulein Abaida v Lybia, No. 130/2018, 18 February 2021
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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CRPD (2019), Z v Tanzania, No. 24/2014, 19 September 2019
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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CCPR (2021) Émile Bisimwa Muhirhi v DRC, No. 2772/2016, 23 March 2021
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Remedy & reparation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 9, 2021
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CCPR (2020) Fatima Rsiwi v Algeria, No. 2843/2016, 19 October 2020
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Military facilities
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 7, 2021
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CCPR (2020) Déborah Kitumaini et al. v DRC, No. 2731/2016, 6 November 2020
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 7, 2021
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CCPR (2014) John Njie Monika v Cameroon, No. 1965/2010, 21 October 2014
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Bariza Zaier v Algeria, No. 2026/2011, 29 October 2014
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Tahar Ammari v Algeria, No. 2098/2011, 30 October 2014
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Halima Louddi v Algeria, No. 2117/2011, 30 October 2014
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Kamela Allioua and Fatima Zohra Kerouane v Algeria, No. 2132/2012, 30 October 2014
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Aïcha Dehimi and Noura Ayache v Algeria, No. 2086/2011, 30 October 2014
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2021
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CCPR (2014) Boughera Kroumi v Algeria, No. 2083/2011, 30 October 2014
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2021
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CCPR (2015) John-Jacques Lumbala Tshidika v Democratic Republic of the Congo, No. 2214/2012, 5 November 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 6, 2021
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CCPR (2016) Mejdoub Chani v Algeria, No. 2297/2013, 11 March 2016
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 5, 2021
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CCPR (2017) Malika El Boathi v Algeria, No. 2259/2013, 17 March 2017
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 17, 2020
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CCPR (2016) Kouider Kerrouche v Algeria, No. 2128/2012, 3 November 2016
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 13, 2020
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CCPR (2016) Rafik Belamrania v Algeria, No. 2157/2012, 27 October 2016
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Military facilities
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 13, 2020
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CCPR (2017) Lounis Khelifati v Algeria, No. 2267/2013, 28 July 2017
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 13, 2020
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CRPD (2017) X v United Republic of Tanzania, No. 22/2014, 18 August 2017
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CRPD (2018) Y v United Republic of Tanzania 2014, No. 23/2014, 31 August 2018
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CCPR (2020) Aïcha Habouchi v Algeria, No. 2819/2016, 27 March 2020
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2002) Handbook on National Human Rights Plans of Action
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- 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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ODIHR et al. (2013) Joint Opinion on the Law relating to the Higher Committee for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of the Republic of Tunisia
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Training / Activities
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Council of Europe: Venice Commission
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 3, 2020
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ACHPR (2012) Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Document Type
- Inquiry Procedure
- Date added
- Jul 12, 2019
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TRIAL International (2019) Evidentiary challenges in universal jurisdiction cases - Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review 2019
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- Theme
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- May 3, 2019
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IRCT (2013) Conference Report: The Right to Rehabilitation for Torture Victims
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2019
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IRCT (2017) Redress and Reparations for Torture Victims - Data in the fight against impunity
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2019
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