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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
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- 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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CRPD (2019) Christopher Leo v Australia, No. 17/2013, 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
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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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CCPR (2014) Hadhoum Hmeed Mohamed v Libya, No. 2046/2011, 17 October 2014
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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
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 7, 2021
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CCPR (2015) Misilin Nona Guneththige and Piyawathie Guneththige v Sri Lanka, No. 2087/2011, 30 March 2015
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Transfers
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 6, 2021
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CCPR (2015) J.N.G.P. v Uruguay, No. 2395/2014, 23 July 2015
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- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Detention: Prisons
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 6, 2021
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CCPR (2015) Dzhakishev Mukhtar v Kazakhstan, No. 2304/2013, 6 November 2015
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 6, 2021
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CCPR (2016) T.V. and A.G. v Uzbekistan, No. 2044/2011, 11 March 2016
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- Theme
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 5, 2021
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CCPR (2016) Mejdoub Chani v Algeria, No. 2297/2013, 11 March 2016
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 5, 2021
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CCPR (2016) F.J. et al. v Australia, No. 2233/2013, 22 March 2016
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- Theme
- Alternative measures to detention
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Immigration detention
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Jan 5, 2021
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CCPR (2017) Zhaslan Suleimenov v Kazakhstan, No. 2146/2012, 21 March 2017
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- Theme
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Detention: Prisons
- Interrogations
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 17, 2020
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CCPR (2017) Dmitry Tyan v Kazakhstan, No. 2125/2011, 16 March 2017
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- Theme
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 17, 2020
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CCPR (2016) Roy Manojkumar Samathanam v Sri Lanka, No. 2412/2014, 28 October 2016
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 13, 2020
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CCPR (2017) Anton Batanov v the Russian Federation, N0. 2532/2015, 28 July 2017
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 13, 2020
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CCPR (2018) Maya Abromchik v Belarus, No. 2228/2012, 20 March 2018
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Dec 8, 2020
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CEDAW (2015) Y.W. v Denmark, No. 51 2013, 2 March 2015
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- Theme
- Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention conditions
- Discrimination
- Medical services
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document Type
- Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 25, 2020
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CCPR (2019) T. v New Zealand, No. 2684/2015, 29 March 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Prisons
- Detention: Psychiatric institutions
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- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 23, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Bholi Pharaka v Nepal, No. 2773/2016, 15 July 2019
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- Theme
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 19, 2020
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CCPR (2019) Ulan Nazaraliev v Kyrgyzstan, No.2697/2015, 5 July 2019
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Human Rights Committee
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
- Date added
- Nov 19, 2020
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WGAD (2006) Situation of Detainees at Guantánamo Bay, E/CN.4/2006/120
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- Theme
- Armed conflict
- Detention conditions
- Excessive use of force
- Medical services
- Military facilities
- Non refoulement & extradition
- Procedural safeguards - general
- Transfers
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- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Document Type
- Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 26, 2020
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Switzerland - NPM (2019) La prise en charge médicale dans les établissements de privation de liberté en Suisse 2018-2019 (Résumé du rapport thématique)
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- Medical services
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- National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
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France - NPM (2020) Les Violences Interpersonelles dans Les Lieux de Privation de Liberté
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- Theme
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention Monitoring
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- National bodies: National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Report: Thematic Report
- Date added
- Aug 19, 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
- Death penalty
- Detention conditions
- Detention rules/ discipline
- Medical services
- Prisons
- Solitary confinement
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- 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 (2005) Human Rights and Prisons. Trainer's Guide on Human Rights Training for Prison Officials
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- Theme
- Detention conditions
- Detention rules/ discipline
- Medical services
- Prisons
- Solitary confinement
- Training / Activities
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- Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Document Type
- Handbook/Manual/Training material
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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BIM (2020) Open research behind closed doors: Assessing the impact of Covid-19 measures on persons deprived of liberty with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities
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- Project/activity
- Theme
- COVID-19 measures
- Detention - general
- Detention conditions
- Detention Monitoring
- Detention rules/ discipline
- Health-care settings
- Medical services
- Prisons
- Psychiatric institutions
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- Academia
- Civil society organisations
- National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Date added
- Jul 10, 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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CAT (2019), V. P. v Russia, No. 780/2016, 26 July 2019
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- Theme
- Complaints
- Health-care settings
- Investigation & prosecution
- Medical services
- Source
- Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Admissibility decision
- Date added
- Nov 5, 2019
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UNGA (2010) Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Nelson Mandela Rules)
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- Theme
- Detention - general
- Detention conditions
- Detention rules/ discipline
- Medical services
- Prisons
- Procedural safeguards - general
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- General Assembly
- Document Type
- Legal instrument
- Date added
- Oct 16, 2019
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Czech Republic - NPM (2017) Report on systematic visits carried out by the public defender of rights 2016
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- Theme
- Detention - general
- Detention conditions
- Detention rules/ discipline
- Excessive use of force
- Health-care settings
- Immigration detention
- Medical services
- Prisons
- Procedural safeguards - general
- Transfers
- Source
- National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- Thematic Report
- Date added
- Jul 19, 2019
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Volksanwaltschaft - (2019) Präventive Menschenrechtskontrolle 2018
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- Theme
- Detention - general
- Detention conditions
- Detention rules/ discipline
- Health-care settings
- Immigration detention
- Medical services
- Military facilities
- Police custody / pre-trial detention
- Prisons
- Psychiatric institutions
- Social welfare institutions
- Solitary confinement
- Source
- National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)
- Document Type
- General / Annual Report
- Date added
- Jul 17, 2019
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