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Redress (2021) Practice Note: Strategic Litigation of Enforced Disappearance in Africa
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Enforced disappearance
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- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Sep 13, 2021
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CRPD (2020) Rubén Calleja Loma and Alejandro Calleja v Spain, No. 41/2017, 28 August 2020
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Sep 10, 2021
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CRPD (2019), Z v Tanzania, No. 24/2014, 19 September 2019
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Remedy & reparation
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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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UNSRT (2021) Interim Report to the GA, A/76/168
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Sep 9, 2021
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SPT (2016) Policy of the SPT on reprisals in relation to its visiting mandate, CAT/OP/6/Rev.1
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Sep 6, 2021
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Helsinki Hungarian Committee (2021) Complaint procedures and the right to information: Briefing Paper
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Remedy & reparation
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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Helsinki Hungarian Committee (2021) Complaint procedures and the right to information: A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms
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- Theme
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention: Prisons
- Remedy & reparation
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 16, 2021
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CTI (2019) Procedures and Mechanisms to Handle Complaints of and Investigations into Torture or other Ill-Treatment
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Sep 3, 2020
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CTI (2019) Procédures et Mécanismes de Plainte et D'Enquête au Niveau National sur les Actes de Torture et les Mauvais Traitements
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Sep 3, 2020
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WGAD (2006) Country Visit Report: Ecuador, A/HRC/4/40/Add.2
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- 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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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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- Theme
- 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
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- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 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
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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 (2006) Rule-of-Law Tools for Post-Conflict States - Prosecution initiatives
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Accountability: Transitional justice
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2008) Rule-of-Law Tools for Post-Conflict States - Reparations programmes
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Accountability: Transitional justice
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2017) Reporting to the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies Training Guide. Part I - Manual
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
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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 (2017) Reporting to the Untied Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies Training Guide. Part II - Notes for Facilitators
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
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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 (2013) Individual Complaint Procedures under the United Nations Human Right Treaties
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- UNCAT - OPCAT ratification/legislation
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- 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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ODIHR (2012) Handbook for National Human Rights Institutions on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention Monitoring
- 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)
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2003) Individual Human Rights Complaints: A Handbook for OSCE Field Personnel
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Detention: Detention - general
- Interrogations
- Source
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR et al. (2011) Joint Opinion on the Law on the Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms of Montenegro
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Council of Europe: Venice Commission
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2011) Opinion on the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the Seimas Ombudsmen
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention Monitoring
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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
- Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR et al. (2013) Joint Opinion on the Law relating to the Higher Committee for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of the Republic of Tunisia
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Training / Activities
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
- Council of Europe: Venice Commission
- Document Type
- Guidelines/Standards/ Recommendations/Opinions
- Date added
- Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2016) Preliminary Opinion on the Draft Act Amending the Act on the Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Detention Monitoring
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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
- Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2016) Final Opinion on the Draft Act Amending the Act on the Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Detention Monitoring
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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
- Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2017) Opinion on the draft law amending and supplementing the Ombudsman Act of Bulgaria
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
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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
- Aug 3, 2020
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ODIHR (2017) Opinion on the Draft Federal Law on the support to the National Human Rights Institution of Switzerland
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention Monitoring
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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
- Aug 3, 2020
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OSCE (2011) Torture, Ill-treatment and Disciplinary Proceedings in Prisons of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention: Prisons
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
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- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): Other OSCE Offices
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Jul 31, 2020
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BIM (2020) Strengthening the Rights of Suspects and Accused in Criminal Proceedings
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention Monitoring
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Jan 22, 2020
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CTI (2019) UNCAT Implementation Tool 6/2019: Procedures and Mechanisms to Handle Complaints of and Investigations into Torture or Ill-treatment
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
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- Inter-states initiatives : Convention against Torture Initiative
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Dec 2, 2019
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Defence for Children International - Belgium (2016) Practical Guide - Monitoring places where children are deprived of liberty
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Source
- Civil society organisations
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2019
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