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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2023): Enhancing the Rights of Defendants and Detainees with Intellectual and/or Psychosocial Disabilities "JUSTICE FOR ALL" - Comparative Report
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- Alternative measures to detention
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- Detention: Social welfare institutions
- Detention: Transfers
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
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- Others
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Feb 9, 2024
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ODIHR (2021) The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Jan 10, 2022
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FIDH, OMCT & AI (2021) The Fate of Thousands Hanging n the Balance - Afghanistan´s Fall into the Hands of the Taliban
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Oct 7, 2021
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OMCT (2021) Extra-Custodial Use of Force Amounting to Torture and Ill-Treatment
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 21, 2021
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Redress (2021) The Forgotten Victims: Enforced Disappearance in Africa
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
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- Civil society organisations
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- Report: Thematic Report
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- Sep 13, 2021
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ODIHR (2021) Integrating the Issue of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Detention Monitoring
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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ODIHR (2020) Human Rights and Gender Equality during Public Emergencies
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: COVID-19 measures
- Detention: Detention - general
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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UNSRT (2020) Interim Report to the GA, A/75/179
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 9, 2021
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CTI (2021) Positive Discipline and Alternatives to Corporal Punishment of Children
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Training / Activities
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- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Jul 2, 2021
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2021) Monitoring prison violence: Briefing Paper
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Date added
- Apr 29, 2021
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Antigone (2021) Monitoring solitary confinement in prison: Briefing Paper
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Prisons
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (2021) Prisoners in a Situation of Vulnerability - Briefing Paper
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Prisons
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (2021) Monitoring prison violence: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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New Zealand Human Rights Commission (2020) Time for a Paradigm Change: A Follow Up Review of Seclusion and Restraint Practices in New Zealand
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
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- Academia
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Jan 11, 2021
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ODIHR & Fair Trials (2020) Eliminating Incentives for Torture in the OSCE Region
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Interrogations
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- 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
- Dec 7, 2020
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ACmHPR (2012) Johannesburg Declaration and Plan of Action on the Prevention and Criminalization of Torture in Africa
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- African Union (AU): African Commission on Human Rights and People’s Rights
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Dec 1, 2020
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UNSRT (2020) Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/43/49
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Nov 13, 2020
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UNSRT (2019) Interim report to the GA, A/74/148
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Nov 13, 2020
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WGAD (2006) Country Visit Report: Honduras, A/HRC/4/40/Add.4
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- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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WGAD (2006) Situation of Detainees at Guantánamo Bay, E/CN.4/2006/120
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Military facilities
- Detention: Transfers
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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FRA (2017) Current Migration Situation in the EU: Torture, Trauma and its Possible Impact on Drug Use
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
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- European Union (EU): European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
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- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 12, 2020
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UNODC & Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2017) Resource book on the use of force and firearms in law enforcement
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Interrogations
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- United Nations: Office on Drugs and Crime
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) A Pocketbook of International Human Rights Standards for Prison Officials
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- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (1997) Human Rights and Law Enforcement. A Manual on Human Rights Training for the Police
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2004) Human Rights Standards and Practice for the Police. Expanded Pcoket Book on Human Rights for the Police
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Detention - general
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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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
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2018) Human Rights Report 2018
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2019) Human Rights Report 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Training / Activities
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Report: General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2016) The Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- 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
- 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
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