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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
Document

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
Document

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
Document

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
Document

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
Document

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

ODIHR (2014) Guiding Principles on Human Rights in the Return of Trafficked Persons

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Theme
  • Non refoulement & extradition
  • Trafficking
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
Document

ODIHR (2018) Guidelines for Addressing the Threats and Challenges of "Foreign Terrorist Fighters" within a Human Rights Framework

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Theme
  • Death penalty
  • Detention - general
  • Evidence extracted by torture
  • Non refoulement & extradition
  • Terrorism
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
Document

ODIHR (2008) Human Rights Defenders in the OSCE Region: Challenges and Good Practices

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Theme
  • Detention - general
  • Detention conditions
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
Document

ODIHR (2005) Human Dimension Commitments: Thematic Compilation, Second edition

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Theme
  • Terrorism
  • Trafficking
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
Document

ODIHR (2010) Comments on the draft Law on the Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms of Montenegro

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Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
Document

ODIHR et al. (2011) Joint Opinion on the Law on the Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms of Montenegro

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Theme
  • Complaints
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
  • Venice Commission
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
Document

ODIHR (2011) Opinion on the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the Seimas Ombudsmen

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Theme
  • Complaints
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
Document

ODIHR et al. (2013) Joint Opinion on the Law relating to the Higher Committee for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of the Republic of Tunisia

Preview
Theme
  • Complaints
  • Investigation & prosecution
  • Training / Activities
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
  • Venice Commission
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
Document

ODIHR (2013) Opinion on the Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on the Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms of Montenegro

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Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
Document

ODIHR (2016) Preliminary Opinion on the Draft Act Amending the Act on the Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland

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Theme
  • Complaints
  • Criminalisation
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
Document

ODIHR (2016) Final Opinion on the Draft Act Amending the Act on the Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland

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Theme
  • Complaints
  • Criminalisation
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
Document

ODIHR (217) Opinion on the Draft Act on an Independent National Human Rights Institution of Iceland

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Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
Document

ODIHR (2017) Opinion on the draft law amending and supplementing the Ombudsman Act of Bulgaria

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Theme
  • Complaints
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
Document

ODIHR (2017) Opinion on the Draft Federal Law on the support to the National Human Rights Institution of Switzerland

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Theme
  • Complaints
  • Criminalisation
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
Document

ODIHR (2019) Opinion on the Draft Amendments to the Act on Establishment of the Slovak National Centre for Human Rights

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Theme
  • Training / Activities
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Aug 3, 2020
Document

OSCE (2018) Building Sustainable Peace and Democracy: OSCE Experiences in South-Eastern Europe

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Theme
  • Transitional justice
Source
  • Other OSCE Offices
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jul 31, 2020
Document

ODIHR & APT (2010) Monitoring Places of Detention: A Practical Guide

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Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • Civil society organisations
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jul 31, 2020
Document

Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte (2020) Stellungnahme bezüglich der Situation von Insass*innen der Justizanstalten Österreichs während der COVID-19-Pandemie

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Theme
  • COVID-19 measures
  • Detention conditions
  • Detention rules/ discipline
Source
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jun 16, 2020
Document

ODIHR & APT (2020) Guidance - Monitoring places of Detention through the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Theme
  • COVID-19 measures
  • Detention conditions
Source
  • Civil society organisations
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jun 16, 2020
Document

UNODC (2020) COVID-19 preparedness and responses in prisons

Preview
Theme
  • COVID-19 measures
  • Quarantine
Source
  • Office on Drugs and Crime
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 5, 2020
Document

World Health Organisation (2020) Frequently asked questions about prevention and control of COVID-19 in prisons and other places of detention

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Theme
  • COVID-19 measures
  • Quarantine
Source
  • World Health Organisation
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Apr 9, 2020
Document

IASC Inter-Agency Standing Committee (2020) Interim Guidance - COVID-19: Focus on Persons Deprived of Their Liberty

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Theme
  • COVID-19 measures
  • Quarantine
Source
  • Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
  • World Health Organisation
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
  • Policy Paper/Strategies
Date added
Apr 3, 2020
Document

Penal Reform International (2020) Coronavirus: Healthcare and human rights of people in prison

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Theme
  • COVID-19 measures
  • Quarantine
Source
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Apr 3, 2020
Document

Innovative Prison Systems (2020) COVID19 IPS Basic Guide for Decision Makers on Worldwide Practices and Recommendations

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Theme
  • COVID-19 measures
  • Quarantine
Source
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Apr 3, 2020
Document

WHO (2020) Preparedness prevention and control of COVID 19 in prisons and other places of detention:Interim Guidance

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Theme
  • COVID-19 measures
  • Detention - general
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Medical services
Source
  • World Health Organisation
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Mar 27, 2020
Document

CPT (2020) Statement of principles relating to the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty in the context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic

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Theme
  • COVID-19 measures
  • Detention - general
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Mar 27, 2020
Document

SPT (2020) Advice of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture to States Parties and National Preventive Mechanismsrelatingto the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Theme
  • COVID-19 measures
  • Detention - general
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Quarantine
Source
  • National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Mar 27, 2020
Document

SPT (2020) Advice to the UK NPM regarding compulsory quarantine for Coronavirus

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Theme
  • COVID-19 measures
  • Detention - general
  • Detention conditions
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Quarantine
Source
  • National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Mar 27, 2020
Document

ODIHR (2019) Preventing and Addressing Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Places of Deprivation of Liberty: Standards, Approaches and Examples from the OSCE Region

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Theme
  • Detention - general
  • Gender-based violence
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Dec 2, 2019
Document

ODIHR (2014) Opinion on Article 235 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan

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Theme
  • Criminalisation
  • Definition /forms/ methods
  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Nov 29, 2019
Document

ODIHR (2018) Opinion on Definition of Torture and its Absolute Prohibition in Polish Legislation

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Theme
  • Criminalisation
  • Definition /forms/ methods
  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Nov 29, 2019
Document

CPT (2019) Preventing police torture and other forms of ill-treatment

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Theme
  • Access to a lawyer
  • Excessive use of force
  • Forced medical examination/ treatment
  • Interrogations
  • Notification of family/ third person
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Nov 14, 2019
Document

ODIHR & PRI (2018) Guidance Document on the Nelson Mandela Rules: Implementing the United Nations Revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

Preview
Theme
  • Detention - general
  • Detention conditions
  • Detention rules/ discipline
  • Prisons
Source
  • Civil society organisations
  • Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Apr 23, 2019
Document

CoE (2014) Effective Investigation of Ill-Treatment. Guidelines on European Standards

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Theme
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • Commissioner for Human Rights
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
  • Handbook/Manual/Training material
Date added
Jan 25, 2019
Document

CPT (2009) Checklist for the evaluation of a psychiatric hospital

Preview
Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Psychiatric institutions
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jan 25, 2019
Document

CPT (2015) Checklist for visits to social care institutions where persons may be deprived of their liberty

Preview
Theme
  • Social welfare institutions
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jan 25, 2019
Document

CPT (2004) Combating impunity

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Theme
  • Criminalisation
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jan 25, 2019
Document

CPT (2018) Complaints mechanisms

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Theme
  • Complaints
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jan 25, 2019
Document

CPT (2013) Documenting and reporting medical evidence of ill-treatment

Preview
Theme
  • Forced medical examination/ treatment
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jan 25, 2019
Document

CPT (1998) Involuntary placement in psychiatric establishments

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Theme
  • Psychiatric institutions
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jan 25, 2019
Document

CPT (2015) Juveniles deprived of their liberty under criminal legislation

Preview
Theme
  • Detention - general
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jan 25, 2019
Document

CPT (2017) Means of restraint in psychiatric establishments for adults

Preview
Theme
  • Psychiatric institutions
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jan 25, 2019
Document

CPT (2018) Transport of detainees

Preview
Theme
  • Transfers
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jan 25, 2019
Document

CPT (2000) Women deprived of their liberty

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Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jan 25, 2019
Document

Venice Commission (2006) Opinion on the international legal Obligations of Council of Europe Member States in respect of Secret Detention Facilities and inter-state Transport of Prisoners, opinion no. 363/2005

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Theme
  • Non refoulement & extradition
Source
  • Venice Commission
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 8, 2018
Document

CPT (2003) Deportation of foreign nationals by air

Preview
Theme
  • Detention conditions
  • Non refoulement & extradition
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (2009) Safeguards for irregular migrants deprived of their liberty

Preview
Theme
  • Detention - general
  • Procedural safeguards - general
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (1997) Foreign nationals detained under aliens legislation

Preview
Theme
  • Detention - general
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (2017) Immigration detention

Preview
Theme
  • Detention - general
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (2017) Inspection of a prison medical service by a CPT doctor - Checklist

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Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Forced medical examination/ treatment
  • Medical services
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (1993) Health care services in prisons

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Theme
  • Detention - general
  • Forced medical examination/ treatment
  • Medical services
  • Prisons
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (2016) Situation of life-sentenced prisoners

Preview
Theme
  • Detention - general
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (2018) Women in prison

Preview
Theme
  • Detention - general
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (2017) Remand detention

Preview
Theme
  • Detention - general
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (2011) Solitary confinement of prisoners

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Theme
  • Solitary confinement
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (2015) Living space per prisoner in prison establishments: CPT standards

Preview
Theme
  • Detention conditions
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (2001) Developments concerning CPT standards in respect of imprisonment

Preview
Theme
  • Detention conditions
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Prisons
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (1992) Imprisonment

Preview
Theme
  • Detention conditions
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Prisons
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (2011) Access to a lawyer as a means of preventing ill-treatment

Preview
Theme
  • Access to a lawyer
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (2010) Electrical discharge weapons

Preview
Theme
  • Excessive use of force
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (2002) Developments concerning CPT standards in respect of police custody

Preview
Theme
  • Audio/video-recording
  • Detention conditions
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Interrogations
  • Police custody / pre-trial detention
  • Procedural safeguards - general
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

CPT (1992) Police custody

Preview
Theme
  • Detention conditions
  • Police custody / pre-trial detention
  • Procedural safeguards - general
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

UN Human Rights Council (2016) Torture and CIDT: Safeguards to prevent torture during police custody and pretrial detention

Preview
Theme
  • Interrogations
  • Police custody / pre-trial detention
  • Procedural safeguards - general
Source
  • Human Rights Council
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
May 4, 2018
Document

Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (Riyadh Guidelines) 1990

Preview
Theme
  • Alternative measures to detention
Source
  • General Assembly
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Feb 6, 2018
Document

CPT (2006) CPT Standards: Developments Concerning CPT Standards

Preview
Theme
  • Detention - general
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Detention rules/ discipline
  • Procedural safeguards - general
  • Training / Activities
Source
  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Feb 5, 2018
Document

AI (2005) 12-Point Programme for the Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Preview
Theme
  • Interrogations
  • Procedural safeguards - general
Source
  • Civil society organisations
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jan 26, 2018
Document

UNHCR (2006) UNHCR Note on Diplomatic Assurances and International Refugee Protection

Preview
Theme
  • Non refoulement & extradition
Source
  • High Commissioner for Refugees
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jan 25, 2018
Document

UNHCR (2000) Interception of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees: the International Framework and Recommendations for a Comprehensive Approach, EC/50/SC/CRP.17

Preview
Theme
  • Non refoulement & extradition
Source
  • High Commissioner for Refugees
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jan 25, 2018
Document

UNHCR (2003) Guidelines on International Protection No. 4: 'Internal Flight or Relocation Alternative' within the Context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, HRC/GIP/03/04

Preview
Theme
  • Non refoulement & extradition
Source
  • High Commissioner for Refugees
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jan 25, 2018
Document

UNHCR (2007) Advisory Opinion on the Extraterritorial Application of Non-refoulement Obligations under the 1951 Convention relating to the Satus of Refugees and its 1967 Optional Protocol

Preview
Theme
  • Non refoulement & extradition
Source
  • High Commissioner for Refugees
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Jan 25, 2018
Document

CAT (2014) Addis Ababa Guidelines (Annex to Rules of Procedure)

Preview
Source
  • Committee against Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Nov 28, 2017
Document

SPT (2015) Guidelines on visits to States parties, CAT/OP/5

Preview
Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Nov 16, 2017
Document

SPT (2010) Guidelines on national preventive mechanisms, CAT/OP/12/5

Preview
Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Nov 16, 2017
Document

SPT (2012) Preliminary guide - Analytical self-assessment tool for NPMs, CAT/OP/1

Preview
Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Nov 16, 2017
Document

SPT (2014) Statement on the obligations of State parties under OPCAT, CAT/OP/24/1

Preview
Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Nov 16, 2017
Document

SPT (2010) The approach of the SPT to the concept of prevention of torture and other ill-treatment, CAT/OP/12/6

Preview
Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Nov 16, 2017
Document

SPT (2016) Persons institutionalized and treated medically without informed consent, CAT/OP/27/2

Preview
Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
  • Health-care settings
Source
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Nov 16, 2017
Document

SPT (2016) Women deprived of their liberty, CAT/OP/27/1

Preview
Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Nov 16, 2017
Document

SPT (2016) Analytical assesment tool for NPMs, CAT/OP/1/Rev.1

Preview
Theme
  • Detention Monitoring
  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Nov 16, 2017
Document

United Nations (2015) Guidelines against Intimidation or Reprisals (San José Guidelines)

Preview
Theme
  • Complaints
  • Criminalisation
  • Investigation & prosecution
Source
  • Committee against Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Oct 4, 2017
Document

CAT (2015) Guidelines on handling allegations of reprisals, CAT/C/55/2

Preview
Source
  • Committee against Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Sep 11, 2017
Document

CAT (2005) Guidelines on Initial reports, CAT/C/4/Rev.3

Preview
Source
  • Committee against Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Sep 11, 2017
Document

CAT (1998) Guidelines on periodic reports, CAT/C/14/Rev 1

Preview
Source
  • Committee against Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Sep 11, 2017
Document

CAT (2015) Guidelines for follow up to concluding observations, CAT/C/55/3

Preview
Source
  • Committee against Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Oct 13, 2016
Document

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