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CEDAW (2020) R.G. v Kyrgyzstan, No. 133/2018, 3 November 2020
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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CRPD (2021) G.J.D. v Australia, No. 36/2016, 19 March 2021
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Health-care settings
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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CRPD (2020) N.N. v Germany, No. 29/2015, 28 August 2020
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Detention: Health-care settings
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- Jurisprudence: Discontinuance
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- Sep 10, 2021
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CRPD (2019) Manuway (Kerry) Doolan v Australia, No. 18/2013, 30 August 2019
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- 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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- 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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CRPD (2014) Mr. X v Argentina, No. 8/2012, 11 April 2014
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CRPD (2016) Marlon James Noble v Australia, No. 7/2012, 2 September 2016
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CRPD (2018) Munir al Adam v Saudi Arabia, No. 38/2016, 20 September 2018
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CED (2016) Estela Deolinda Yrusta and Alejandra del Valle Yrusta v Argentina, No. 1/2013, 11 March 2016
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
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- United Nations: Committee on Enforced Disappearances
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CMW/CRC (2017) Joint general comment No. 4 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No. 23 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on State obligations regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration in countries of origin, transit, destination and return, CMW/C/GC/4-CRC/C/GC/23
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Immigration detention
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- United Nations: Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
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- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CMW/CRC (2017) Joint general comment No. 3 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No. 22 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the general principles regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration, CMW/C/GC/3-CRC/C/GC/22
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- Theme
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CMW (2013) General comment No. 2 on the rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and their families, CMW/C/GC/2
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Nov 24, 2020
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CRC (2019) General Comment No. 24 (replacing General Comment No. 10) on Children's Rights in the Child Justice System, CRC/C/GC/24
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- Alternative measures to detention
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Document Type
- General Comment
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
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WGAD (2006) Country Visit Report: Nicaragua, A/HRC/4/40/Add.3
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Immigration detention
- 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) Country Visit Report: Honduras, A/HRC/4/40/Add.4
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- Theme
- 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) Country Visit Report: Ecuador, A/HRC/4/40/Add.2
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
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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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WGAD (2006) Country Visit Report: Canada, E/CN.4/2006/7/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- 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 (2005) Country Visit Report: Belarus, E/CN.4/2005/6/Add.3
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
- 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 (2003) Country Visit Report: Mexico, E/CN.4/2003/8/Add.3
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Corruption
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Military facilities
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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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 (2003) Country Visit Report: Argentina, E/CN.4/2004/3/Add.3
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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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 (2002) Country Visit Report: Bahrain, E/CN.4/2002/77/Add.2
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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WGAD (1999) Country Visit Report: Indonesia, E/CN.4/2000/4/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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WGAD (1999) Country Visit Report: Peru, E/CN.4/1999/63/Add.2
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Terrorism
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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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WGAD (1998) Country Visit Report: UK, E/CN.4/1999/63/Add.3
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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WGAD (1994) Country Visit Report: Viet Nam, E/CN.4/1995/31/Add.4
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - general
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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WGAD (1994) Country Visit Report: Bhutan, E/CN.4/1995/31/Add.3
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- Theme
- Detention: Detention - 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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SPT (2019) Country Visit Report: Turkey, CAT/OP/TUR/1
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 18, 2020
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SPT(2019) Country Visit Report: Spain, CAT/OP/ESP/1
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Migration
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Country Visit Report
- Date added
- Aug 18, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2005) Human Rights and Prisons. Manual on Human Rights Training for Prison Officials
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- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Accountability: Complaints
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Detention: Prisons
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- 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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