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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2023) Strategically Strengthening Procedural Rights: Challenges, Opportunities, Lessons Learned
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- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- Report: Thematic Report
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- Apr 19, 2023
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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
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- 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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OSCE ODIHR and LBI GMR (2022) The Admissibility of evidence tainted by torture and ill-treatment
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- Evidence extracted by torture
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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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- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Feb 17, 2023
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ODIHR (2021) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Jan 10, 2022
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Omega (2017) Briefing Paper: Use of Tools of Torture in OSCE participating States
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Dec 1, 2021
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Omega & AI (2018) Combating Torture: The Need for Comprehensive Regulation of Law Enforcement Equipment
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Civil society organisations
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- 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
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Dec 1, 2021
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N. Corney & M. Crowley (2019) A review of less lethal weapons manufacture trade and (mis)use
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Academia
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- Academic literature
- 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
- Document Type
- 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
- Document Type
- 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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- Theme
- 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
- Document Type
- 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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UNGA (2020) No A/74/969, 28 July 2020, Report of the Secretary General on Resolution 73/304, Towards torture-free trade: examining the feasibility, scope and parameters for possible common international standards
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- United Nations: General Assembly
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 23, 2021
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UNGA (2019) Resolution No A/RES/73/304, 28 June 2019, Towards torture-free trade: examining the feasibility, scope and parameters for possible common international standards
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- United Nations: General Assembly
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- Resolution
- Date added
- Sep 23, 2021
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EU (2019) No 2019/125, 16 January 2019, Regulation concerning trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- European Union (EU): Council of the European Union
- European Union (EU): European Parliament
- Date added
- Sep 23, 2021
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Alliance for Torture-Free Trade (2018) Joint Communique, 24 September 2018
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Inter-states initiatives : Alliance for Torture-Free Trade
- Document Type
- Policy Paper/Strategies
- Date added
- Sep 23, 2021
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EU (2005) No 1236/2005, 27 June 2005, Regulation concerning trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- European Union (EU): Council of the European Union
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
- Date added
- Sep 23, 2021
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Omega (2021) Visual Guide to Law Enforcement and Security Equipment
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- 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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- Theme
- 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)
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Sep 22, 2021
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Omega & AI (2020) Ending the Torture Trade - The Path to Global Controls on the 'Tools of Torture'
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 22, 2021
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OMCT (2021) Extra-Custodial Use of Force Amounting to Torture and Ill-Treatment
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 21, 2021
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ODIHR (2021) Protecting Human Rights in Prisons while Preventing Radicalization Leading to Terrorism or Violence A Guide for Detention Monitors
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
- 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
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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ODIHR (2021) Integrating the Issue of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Detention Monitoring
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- 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
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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ODIHR (2020) Human Rights and Gender Equality during Public Emergencies
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Detention: Detention - general
- 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
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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ODIHR (2021) Human Rights of Armed Forces Personnel: Compendium of Standards, Good Practices and Recommendations
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- Theme
- 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)
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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UNSRT (2021) Report to the Human Rights Council, Corrigendum, A/HRC/46/26/Corr.1
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- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Date added
- Sep 9, 2021
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UNSRT (2021) Interim Report to the GA, A/76/168
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 9, 2021
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UNSRT (2020) Interim Report to the GA, A/75/179
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 9, 2021
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CCPR (2020) Kazybek Usekeev v Kyrgyzstan, No. 3000/2017, 6 November 2020
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Military facilities
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 7, 2021
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SPT (2021) Follow-up advice of the SPT to States parties and NPMs relating to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, CAT/OP/12
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Sep 6, 2021
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SPT (2021) Protocol for NPM undertaking on-site visits during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, CAT/OP/11
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Sep 6, 2021
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SPT (2016) Policy of the SPT on reprisals in relation to its visiting mandate, CAT/OP/6/Rev.1
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Sep 6, 2021
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SPT (2019) NPM checklist on health-care issues relating to the monitoring of places of detention, CAT/OP/7
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Health-care settings
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Sep 6, 2021
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SPT (2021) Annual Report, CAT/C/70/2
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Sep 2, 2021
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CAT (2021) Annual Report, A/76/44
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- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Sep 2, 2021
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LSE Mannheim Centre for Criminology (2008) A sourcebook on solitar confinment
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
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- Academia
- Document Type
- Academic literature
- Date added
- Sep 2, 2021
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CTI (2021) Positive Discipline and Alternatives to Corporal Punishment of Children
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Training / Activities
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- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Jul 2, 2021
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2021) Monitoring prison violence: Briefing Paper
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Date added
- Apr 29, 2021
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Antigone (2021) Monitoring solitary confinement in prison: Briefing Paper
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Prisons
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Source
- 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: 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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Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (2021) Prisoners in a Situation of Vulnerability - Briefing Paper
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2021) Systemic Thinking in Preventing Human Rights Monitoring: A Dossier for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
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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
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (2021) Prisoners in a situation of vulnerability: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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Antigone (2021) Monitoring solitary confinement in prison: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2021) Monitoring prison violence: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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CCPR (2007) General Comment General Comment No. 32, 23 August 2007
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a medical doctor
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Audio/video-recording
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Mar 21, 2021
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UNSRT (2021) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/46/26
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- Source
- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Mar 9, 2021
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SPT (2020) Annual Report, CAT/C/69/3
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Feb 22, 2021
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CCPR (2015) G.C.A.A. v Uruguay, No. 2358/2014, 2 November 2015
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Jan 6, 2021
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CCPR (2017) X. v Sri Lanka, No. 2256/2013, 27 July 2017
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 13, 2020
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ODIHR & Fair Trials (2020) Eliminating Incentives for Torture in the OSCE Region
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- Theme
- 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
- Source
- 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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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
- Source
- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Dec 1, 2020
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CRPD (2014) General comment No. 1 on equal recognition before the law, CRPD/C/GC/1
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- 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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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- 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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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CERD (2011) General Recommendation No. 34 on racial discrimination against people of African descent, CERD/C/GC/34
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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