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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
Source
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
  • 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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Theme
  • Detention: Detention - general
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
Source
  • Academia
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Dec 1, 2021
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BIM (2021) Open Research Behind Closed Doors, Factsheet

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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
Source
  • Academia
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Oct 21, 2021
Document

BIM (2021) Open Research Behind Closed Doors, Infographic (video)

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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
Source
  • Academia
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Oct 21, 2021
Document

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
Source
  • Academia
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Oct 21, 2021
Document

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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Theme
  • Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Law enforcement equipment/torture-free trade
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Sep 23, 2021
Document

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
Source
  • 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
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
Sep 22, 2021
Document

Redress (2021) Practice Note: Strategic Litigation of Enforced Disappearance in Africa

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Theme
  • Accountability: Complaints
  • Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
  • Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
Source
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Sep 13, 2021
Document

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
Source
  • 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
Document

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
Source
  • United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Sep 6, 2021
Document

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
Source
  • United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Sep 6, 2021
Document

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
Document

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
Document

ODIHR & Fair Trials (2020) Eliminating Incentives for Torture in the OSCE Region

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Theme
  • Criminalisation
  • Evidence extracted by torture
  • Forced medical examination/ treatment
  • Interrogations
  • Investigation & prosecution
  • Police custody / pre-trial detention
  • Procedural safeguards - general
Source
  • Civil society organisations
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Dec 7, 2020
Document

ACmHPR (2012) Johannesburg Declaration and Plan of Action on the Prevention and Criminalization of Torture in Africa

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Theme
  • Criminalisation
  • Definition /forms/ methods
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Investigation & prosecution
  • Procedural safeguards - general
  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Dec 1, 2020
Document

OHCHR (2009) Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Fact Sheet No. 6 Rev. 3

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Theme
  • Definition /forms/ methods
  • Enforced disappearance
Source
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Nov 24, 2020
Document

CTI (2019) UN Convention Against Torture - Explainer

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Theme
  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • Convention against Torture Initiative
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Sep 3, 2020
Document

Legal standards for NPMs Armenia

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Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 19, 2020
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SPT (2019) Rules of Procedure, CAT/OP/3/Rev.2

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Theme
  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 18, 2020
Document

Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) Human Rights and Prisons. A Compilation of InternationalHuman Rights Instrumentsconcerning the Administration of Justice

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Theme
  • Prisons
Source
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
  • Legal instrument
  • Rules of Procedure
Date added
Aug 7, 2020
Document

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
  • Definition /forms/ methods
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • Civil society organisations
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 7, 2020
Document

Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2018) Preventing Torture - The Role of National Preventive Mechanisms. A Practical Guide

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Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 7, 2020
Document

Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2009) Rule-of-Law Tools for Post-Conflict States - National consultations on transitional justice

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Theme
  • Transitional justice
Source
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 7, 2020
Document

Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2020) Guidance on Less-Lethal Weapons in Law Enforcement

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Theme
  • Excessive use of force
  • Investigation & prosecution
  • Police custody / pre-trial detention
  • Prisons
Source
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 7, 2020
Document

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
  • Gender-based violence
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 7, 2020
Document

Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2008) Human Rights, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism

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Theme
  • Definition /forms/ methods
  • Terrorism
Source
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 7, 2020
Document

Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2012) The United Nations Human Right Treaty System

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Theme
  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 7, 2020
Document

Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2013) Individual Complaint Procedures under the United Nations Human Right Treaties

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Theme
  • Complaints
  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 7, 2020
Document

Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2010) Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking

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Theme
  • Trafficking
Source
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 7, 2020
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