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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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- 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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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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- 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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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Military facilities
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
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- 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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- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
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- 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
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- 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
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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 (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
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- 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
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- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Sep 2, 2021
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CAT (2021) Annual Report, A/76/44
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Sep 2, 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
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- 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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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 13, 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
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- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CERD (2005) Draft General recommendation 31 on the prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system, CERD/C/GC/31/Rev.4
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- 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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OHCHR (2009) Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Fact Sheet No. 6 Rev. 3
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- Theme
- 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
- Document Type
- 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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- Theme
- 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/CRC (2017) Joint general comment No. 3 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No. 22 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the general principles regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration, CMW/C/GC/3-CRC/C/GC/22
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- 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
- 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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- Theme
- 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
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Vladimir Nuryllayev and Aibek Salayev v Turkmenistan, No. 2448/2014, 29 March 2019
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2020
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CCPR (2020) Evgeny Bryukhanov v Russian Federation, No. 2367/2014, 12 March 2020
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 22, 2020
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UNSRT (2020) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/43/49
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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
- Nov 13, 2020
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CAT (2020) Annual report, A/75/44
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- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Nov 13, 2020
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