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SPT (2021) Follow-up advice of the SPT to States parties and NPMs relating to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, CAT/OP/12

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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
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SPT (2021) Protocol for NPM undertaking on-site visits during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, CAT/OP/11

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Theme
  • Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
  • Detention Monitoring
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

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

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Theme
  • Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
  • Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
Source
  • United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Nov 24, 2020
Document

SPT (2019) Rules of Procedure, CAT/OP/3/Rev.2

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Theme
  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • United Nations: 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
  • Detention: Prisons
Source
  • United Nations: 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
  • 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
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
  • United Nations: 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
  • Accountability: Transitional justice
Source
  • United Nations: 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
  • 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
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
  • 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
Document

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

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Theme
  • Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
  • Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
Source
  • United Nations: 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
  • United Nations: 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
  • Accountability: Complaints
  • UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
Source
  • United Nations: 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
  • Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Trafficking
Source
  • United Nations: 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
  • 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
Document

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

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Theme
  • Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
  • Detention: Quarantine
Source
  • United Nations: 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
  • Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
  • Detention: Quarantine
Source
  • United Nations: 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
  • Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
  • Detention: Quarantine
Source
  • United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
  • United Nations: World Health Organisation
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
  • Policy Paper/Strategies
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
  • Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
  • Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
  • Detention: Detention - general
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • United Nations: World Health Organisation
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
  • Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
  • Detention: Detention - general
  • Detention: Quarantine
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
  • United Nations: 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
  • Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
  • Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
  • Detention: Detention - general
  • Detention: Quarantine
  • Detention Monitoring
Source
  • National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
  • United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Mar 27, 2020
Document

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

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Theme
  • Interrogations
  • Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
  • Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
Source
  • United Nations: 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

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Theme
  • Alternative measures to detention
Source
  • United Nations: General Assembly
Document Type
  • Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
Date added
Feb 6, 2018
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UNHCR (2006) UNHCR Note on Diplomatic Assurances and International Refugee Protection

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Theme
  • Non refoulement & extradition
Source
  • United Nations: 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

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Theme
  • Non refoulement & extradition
Source
  • United Nations: 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

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Theme
  • Non refoulement & extradition
Source
  • United Nations: 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

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Theme
  • Non refoulement & extradition
Source
  • United Nations: 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)

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