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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
Source
  • 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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CTI (2021) Positive Discipline and Alternatives to Corporal Punishment of Children

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  • Corporal punishment
  • Training / Activities
Source
  • Convention against Torture Initiative
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Jul 2, 2021
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Antigone (2021) Monitoring solitary confinement in prison: Briefing Paper

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Theme
  • Definition /forms/ methods
  • Prisons
  • Solitary confinement
Source
  • Academia
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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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
  • Complaints
  • Remedy & reparation
Source
  • Academia
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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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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  • Detention Monitoring
  • Prisons
Source
  • Academia
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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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
  • Access to information
  • Complaints
  • 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
  • Discrimination
  • 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
  • Prisons
  • 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
  • Definition /forms/ methods
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Excessive use of force
  • Prisons
Source
  • Academia
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Apr 16, 2021
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CTI (2020) Non-Admission of Evidence Obtained by Torture and Ill-treatment: Procedures and Practices

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Theme
  • Evidence extracted by torture
  • Procedural safeguards - general
Source
  • Convention against Torture Initiative
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Sep 3, 2020
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CTI (2020) Irrecevabilité des Preuves Obtenues sous la Torture et au Moyen de Mauvais Traitements: Procédures et Pratiques

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Theme
  • Evidence extracted by torture
  • Procedural safeguards - general
Source
  • Convention against Torture Initiative
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Sep 3, 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
  • Complaints
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • 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
  • Complaints
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • Convention against Torture Initiative
Document Type
  • 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
  • Complaints
  • Definition /forms/ methods
  • Interrogations
  • Investigation & prosecution
  • Remedy & reparation
Source
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
  • 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
  • Complaints
  • Detention conditions
  • Detention rules/ discipline
  • Prisons
  • Procedural safeguards - general
Source
  • 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 (2005) A Pocketbook of International Human Rights Standards for Prison Officials

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Theme
  • Alternative measures to detention
  • Death penalty
  • Detention conditions
  • Detention rules/ discipline
  • Medical services
  • Prisons
  • Solitary confinement
Source
  • 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 (2005) Human Rights and Prisons. Trainer's Guide on Human Rights Training for Prison Officials

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Theme
  • Detention conditions
  • Detention rules/ discipline
  • Medical services
  • Prisons
  • Solitary confinement
  • Training / Activities
Source
  • 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) Handbook on National Human Rights Plans of Action

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  • Detention Monitoring
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • 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 (1997) Human Rights and Law Enforcement. A Manual on Human Rights Training for the Police

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Theme
  • Definition /forms/ methods
  • Detention - general
  • Detention rules/ discipline
  • Excessive use of force
  • Interrogations
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • 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
  • Definition /forms/ methods
  • Detention - general
  • Excessive use of force
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • 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 - general
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Aug 7, 2020
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UNODC (1994) Human Rights and Pre-trial Detention. A Handbook of International Standards relating to Pre-trial Detention

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Theme
  • Police custody / pre-trial detention
Source
  • 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 (2017) Reporting to the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies Training Guide. Part I - Manual

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Theme
  • Complaints
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • 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
  • Complaints
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • 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 & UNFPA & The Danish Institute for Human Rights (2014) Reproductive Rights are Human Rights - A Handbook for National Human Rights Institutions

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  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • Civil society organisations
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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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
  • Excessive use of force
  • Extra-judicial execution
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • 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 (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
  • Criminalisation
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • 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 (2010) UNDP-OHCHR Toolkit for collaboration with National Human Rights Institutions

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Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • 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) Trial-Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners

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Theme
  • Detention - general
  • Evidence extracted by torture
  • Interrogations
  • Procedural safeguards - general
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2013) Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism Investigations: A Practical Manual for Law Enforcement Officers

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Theme
  • Detention - general
  • Evidence extracted by torture
  • Non refoulement & extradition
  • Terrorism
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2012) Handbook for National Human Rights Institutions on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

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  • Complaints
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Gender-based violence
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2012) Trial Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners, Revised edition

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Theme
  • Detention - general
  • Evidence extracted by torture
  • Interrogations
  • Procedural safeguards - general
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  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2008) Handbook on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Armed Forces Personnel

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Theme
  • Detention rules/ discipline
  • Military facilities
  • Procedural safeguards - general
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2008) Countering Terrorism, Protecting Human Rights: A Manual

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  • Access to a lawyer
  • Definition /forms/ methods
  • Evidence extracted by torture
  • Extra-judicial execution
  • Forced medical examination/ treatment
  • Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
  • Interrogations
  • Investigation & prosecution
  • Non refoulement & extradition
  • Procedural safeguards - general
  • Remedy & reparation
  • Solitary confinement
  • Systematic torture
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2008) Gender and Security Sector Reform: Penal Reform and Gender

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  • Detention conditions
Source
  • 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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  • Complaints
  • Death penalty
  • Detention - general
  • Extra-judicial execution
  • Interrogations
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
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OSCE (2005) Human Rights and Law Enforcement - Booklet of Human Rights for Police

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Theme
  • Definition /forms/ methods
  • Procedural safeguards - general
Source
  • Other OSCE Offices
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Jul 31, 2020
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ODIHR et al. (2020) Gender and Security Toolkit: Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector and Gender

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  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • Civil society organisations
  • Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Jul 31, 2020
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ODIHR et al. (2019) Gender and Security Toolkit: Justice and Gender

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  • Detention - general
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  • Civil society organisations
  • Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
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  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Jul 31, 2020
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ODIHR (2019) Places of Deprivation of Liberty and Gender

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  • Detention - general
  • Detention conditions
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  • Civil society organisations
  • Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Jul 31, 2020
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BIM (2020) Strengthening the Rights of Suspects and Accused in Criminal Proceedings

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  • Complaints
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Procedural safeguards - general
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  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Jan 22, 2020
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Fair Trials (2015) Using EU Law in Criminal Practice

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  • Police custody / pre-trial detention
  • Procedural safeguards - general
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  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Jan 7, 2020
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Fair Trials (2015) Roadmap Practitioner Tools: Access to a Lawyer Directive

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  • Access to a lawyer
Source
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Jan 7, 2020
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Fair Trials (2015) Roadmap Practitioner Tools: Interpretation and Translation Directive

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  • Procedural safeguards - general
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  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Jan 7, 2020
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Fair Trials (2015) Roadmap Practitioner Tools: Right to Information Directive

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  • Access to information
Source
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Jan 7, 2020
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Fair Trials (2019) Effective Legal Assistance in Pre-Trial Detention Decision Making

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  • Access to a lawyer
  • Access to information
  • Interrogations
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  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Jan 7, 2020
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CTI (2019) UNCAT Implementation Tool 6/2019: Procedures and Mechanisms to Handle Complaints of and Investigations into Torture or Ill-treatment

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  • Complaints
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • Convention against Torture Initiative
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Dec 2, 2019
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CTI (2019) UNCAT Implementation Tool 6/2019: Cooperation on Extradition

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  • Non refoulement & extradition
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  • Convention against Torture Initiative
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Oct 17, 2019
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CTI (2017) CTI/UNCAT Implementation Tool 1/2017: State Strategies to Prevent and Repond to Torture and other Ill-treatment or Punishment

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  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • Convention against Torture Initiative
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
  • Policy Paper/Strategies
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Jul 31, 2019
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ODIHR et al. (2018) UNCAT Implementation Tool 5/2018: Providing Rehabilitation to Victims of Torture and Other Ill-treatment

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  • Remedy & reparation
  • Training / Activities
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  • Convention against Torture Initiative
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Jul 31, 2019
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BIM (2018) Die ersten 48 Stunden: Beschuldigtenrechte im polizeilichen Ermittlungsverfahren

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  • Access to a lawyer
  • Access to information
  • Audio/video-recording
  • Interrogations
  • Police custody / pre-trial detention
  • Procedural safeguards - general
Source
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Jun 28, 2019
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PRI & TIJ (2019) Guide to the rehabilitation and social reintegration of women prisoners: Implementation of the Bangkok Rules

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  • Remedy & reparation
  • Training / Activities
Source
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Jun 6, 2019
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APT & PRI (2018) Incident management and independent investigations - Addressing risk factors to prevent torture and ill-treatment

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  • Detention - general
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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May 3, 2019
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PRI (2018) Mental health in prison - A short guide for prison staff

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  • Medical services
  • Prisons
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  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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May 3, 2019
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APF, APT & Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2010) Preventing Torture: An Operational Guide for National Human Rights Institutions

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  • Criminalisation
  • Definition /forms/ methods
  • Detention - general
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Investigation & prosecution
  • Training / Activities
Source
  • Civil society organisations
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Apr 23, 2019
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Defence for Children International - Belgium (2016) Practical Guide - Monitoring places where children are deprived of liberty

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  • Complaints
  • Detention - general
  • Detention Monitoring
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  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Apr 23, 2019
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APT (2019) Access to a lawyer during the first hours of custody in Mexico: A Situation Analysis

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  • Access to a lawyer
  • Police custody / pre-trial detention
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  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Apr 23, 2019
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APT (2018) Towards the Effective Protection of LGBTI Persons Deprived of Liberty: A Monitoring Guide

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  • Detention Monitoring
  • Immigration detention
  • Police custody / pre-trial detention
  • Prisons
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  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Apr 23, 2019
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OMCT (2014) Seeking Remedies for Torture Victims: A Handbook on the Individual Complaints Procedures of the UN Treaty Bodies

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  • Remedy & reparation
Source
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
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Apr 23, 2019
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