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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
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- 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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- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention Monitoring
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Oct 21, 2021
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BIM (2021) Open Research Behind Closed Doors, Infographic (video)
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention Monitoring
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Oct 21, 2021
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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
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Oct 21, 2021
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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
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- 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
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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
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Sep 6, 2021
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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
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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
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- Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Legal instrument
- Rules of Procedure
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2020) Guidance on Less-Lethal Weapons in Law Enforcement
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- Theme
- Excessive use of force
- Investigation & prosecution
- Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Prisons
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- Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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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
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- Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2008) Human Rights Defenders in the OSCE Region: Challenges and Good Practices
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- Theme
- Detention - general
- Detention conditions
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- Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 3, 2020
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UNODC (2020) COVID-19 preparedness and responses in prisons
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- Theme
- COVID-19 measures
- Quarantine
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- Office on Drugs and Crime
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- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- May 5, 2020
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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
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- World Health Organisation
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Apr 9, 2020
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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
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- 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
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Penal Reform International (2020) Coronavirus: Healthcare and human rights of people in prison
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- Theme
- COVID-19 measures
- Quarantine
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Apr 3, 2020
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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
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Apr 3, 2020
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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
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- World Health Organisation
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Mar 27, 2020
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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
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- European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Mar 27, 2020
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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
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- National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Mar 27, 2020
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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
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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
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- Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Dec 2, 2019
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ODIHR & PRI (2018) Guidance Document on the Nelson Mandela Rules: Implementing the United Nations Revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
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- 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
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CPT (2009) Checklist for the evaluation of a psychiatric hospital
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- Theme
- Detention Monitoring
- Psychiatric institutions
- Source
- European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Jan 25, 2019
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CPT (2015) Checklist for visits to social care institutions where persons may be deprived of their liberty
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- Theme
- Social welfare institutions
- Source
- European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Jan 25, 2019
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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
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CPT (2015) Juveniles deprived of their liberty under criminal legislation
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- Theme
- Detention - general
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- European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Jan 25, 2019
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CPT (2017) Means of restraint in psychiatric establishments for adults
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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
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CPT (2018) Transport of detainees
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- Theme
- Transfers
- Source
- European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Jan 25, 2019
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CPT (2009) Safeguards for irregular migrants deprived of their liberty
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- 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
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CPT (1997) Foreign nationals detained under aliens legislation
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- Theme
- Detention - general
- Source
- European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- May 4, 2018
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