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ODIHR (2021) Integrating the Issue of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Detention Monitoring
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- 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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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
- 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 (2016) Policy of the SPT on reprisals in relation to its visiting mandate, CAT/OP/6/Rev.1
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- 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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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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ODIHR & Fair Trials (2020) Eliminating Incentives for Torture in the OSCE Region
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- 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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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Dec 1, 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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- 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
- Document Type
- 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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CCPR (2019) Vladimir Nuryllayev and Aibek Salayev v Turkmenistan, No. 2448/2014, 29 March 2019
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- 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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CEDAW (2019) DRAFT General Recommendation on Trafficking of Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration
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- Theme
- 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
- Source
- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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CTI (2019) Procedures and Mechanisms to Handle Complaints of and Investigations into Torture or other Ill-Treatment
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Sep 3, 2020
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CTI (2019) Procédures et Mécanismes de Plainte et D'Enquête au Niveau National sur les Actes de Torture et les Mauvais Traitements
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Sep 3, 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
- Source
- 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 (2004) Istanbul Protocol. Manual on the Effective Investigations and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
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- Theme
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
- 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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- Theme
- 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
- 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 (2002) Human Rights and Law Enforcement. A Trainer's Guide on Human Rights for the Police
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- 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 (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
- 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 (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
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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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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- 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 (2016) The Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- 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 (2020) Guidance on Less-Lethal Weapons in Law Enforcement
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Source
- 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
- Source
- 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 (2015) Commissions of Inquiry and Fact-Finding Missions on International Human Rigths and Humanitarian Law - Guidance and Practice
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- Theme
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- 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) Who''s Responsible? Attributing Individual Responsibility for Violations of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in United Nations Commissions of Inquiry, Fact-Finding Missions and other Investigations
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- 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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ODIHR (2008) Countering Terrorism, Protecting Human Rights: A Manual
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Remedy & reparation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- 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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Fair Trials (2017) Report The Disappearing Trial. Towards a rights-based approach to trial waiver systems
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- Theme
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2020
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