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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
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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
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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
Source
  • 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
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
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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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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
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
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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
Source
  • 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
Source
  • 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
Source
  • 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
Source
  • Office on Drugs and Crime
Document Type
  • 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
Source
  • 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
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
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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
Source
  • 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
Source
  • 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
Source
  • 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
Source
  • 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
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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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
Source
  • 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
Source
  • 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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