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UN : CAT/C/DNK/8 : Not available for external loan | |
Eighth periodic report submitted by Denmark under article 19 of the Convention pursuant to the simplified reporting procedure, due in 2019 | |
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20231013 | |
United Nations | |
UN. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984) | intelligence service oversight | hate crimes | patient rights | gender dysphoria | intersex persons | evidence admissibility | reparations | risk of torture | peacekeeping personnel | prisoner transfer | military personnel | complaint procedures | police oversight | psychiatric confinement | psychiatric patients, child | physical restraint | policing | prison personnel violence | riot control agents, chemical | death in custody statistics | prisoner violence prevention | prisoner violence statistics | prison health care delivery | solitary confinement prevention | remand detention | prison conditions | prisoners, female | age of criminal responsibility | juvenile detainees | psychiatric hospitals | coercion | administrative detention | forensic evaluation of torture | training of judges | DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture | training of health personnel | torture victims treatment | prison personnel | torture prevention | training of police personnel | human rights education | universal jurisdiction | extradition | rejected asylum seekers statistics | torture victims | asylum statistics | refoulement prevention | victim services | trafficking in persons victims statistics | domestic violence prevention | institutionalised children | NPMs | national institutions | detainee rights | domestic status | treaty incorporation | torture criminalisation | periodic reports | state compliance | domestic implementation | Denmark | Greenland [Denmark] | Faroe Islands [Denmark] | |
Full text, periodic report | |
Annex to the periodic report | |
Denmark | |
ART : 32885 : Not available for external loan | |
Egypt : alternative report to the UN Committee against Torture - 2023 | |
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20231000 | |
UN. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | |
UN. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984) | state compliance | domestic implementation effectiveness | torture criminalisation | torture definition | counterterrorism | emergency legislation | national legal instruments effectiveness | determinants of torture | prison conditions | disappearances | detainee rights | fair trial rights | prison health care delivery | prisoner visitation | prisoner rights | judicial independence | reparations for torture | refoulement prevention | death in custody | recommendations | Egypt | |
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Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms | El-Nadeem Center | Egyptian Front for Human Rights | Committee for Justice | Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies | World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) | DIGNITY-Danish Institute against Torture | International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) | |
ART : 32881 : Not available for external loan | |
Human Rights Watch submission to the Committee Against Torture (CAT) in advance of its review of the state of Egypt, 78th session : October 30- November 24, 2023 | |
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UN. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | |
UN. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984) | state compliance | domestic implementation effectiveness | torture prevention effectiveness | national legal instruments effectiveness | torture definition | criminal law | torture criminalisation | accountability for torture effectiveness | attitude to human rights defenders | human rights defender persecution | Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture | torture prevalence | torture methods | torture allegations | impunity for torture | refoulement | sexual minorities victimisation | execution techniques | death in custody | degrading treatment | torture victim characteristics | prison conditions | sexual torture | recommendations | Egypt | |
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) | |
UN : A/HRC/53/CRP.5 : Not available for external loan | |
'No end in sight' : torture and ill-treatment in the Syrian Arab Republic 2020-2023 : Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic | |
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20230710 | |
United Nations | |
20200101-20230430 | torture patterns | prisons | detention centres | cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment | agents responsible for violations | intelligence services | police personnel | military personnel | state agents | disappearances | non state agents | torture purposes | extortion | interrogation | torture methods | sexual torture | torture victims characteristics | detainees, female | prison conditions | returnees | death in custody | torture effects | impunity | Syrian Arab Republic | |
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Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic | |
ART : 30481 : Not available for external loan | |
The duration of political imprisonment : evidence from China | |
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20230700 | |
Sage | |
Steinert, Christoph Valentin | |
political imprisonment | collective punishment | comparison | Tibetans | politics | arbitrary arrest and detention | repression strategies | death in custody | Uighurs | forecasting | survival | religion | ethnicity | threat perception | determinants of imprisonment | length of detention | time factors | China | |
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Conflict management and peace science ; vol. 40, no. 4 | |
ART : 32709 : Not available for external loan | |
Death and denial of care in Indian prisons | |
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20230700 | |
Forum for Medical Ethics Society | |
D’Cruz, Meenakshi | |
death in custody statistics | cases | judicial decisions | medical examination on admission | prison health care quality | prison health care delivery | health care denial | official records | death cause | India | |
Full text in open access | |
Indian journal of medical ethics ; vol. 8, no. 3 | |
UN : A/HRC/53/CRP.3 : Not available for external loan | |
Detention of civilians in the context of the armed attack by the Russian Federation against Ukraine: 24 February 2022 - 23 May 2023 : Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights | |
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20230630 | |
United Nations | |
202202024-20230523 | human rights violations statistics | prisoner treatment | civilian population victimisation | arbitrary arrest and detention statistics | agents responsible for violations | foreign occupation forces | access to places of detention | human rights monitoring effectiveness | concentration camps prisoners | disappearances | human rights defenders victimisation | incommunicado detention | secret detention | deportation | summary executions statistics | accountability | torture allegations statistics | inhuman treatment | prison conditions effects | withholding medical treatment | death in custody | Ukraine | Russian Federation | |
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UN. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | |
ART : 33138 : Not available for external loan | |
Transnational comparison of the impact of COVID-19 on medicolegal death investigations and the administration of justice : early stages of the pandemic | |
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20230620 | |
Sage | |
Lam, Vienna C. | King, Steff | Fabian, Sheryl C. | Anderson, Gail S. | |
pandemic effects | death certificates | death cause | communication with family members | prisons | administration of justice | COVID-19 mortality | emergency response | forensic pathologist's role | attitude of health personnel | death in custody statistics | cross-national comparison | mortality epidemiology | Canada | Italy | United Kingdom | United States | |
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Medicine, science and the law ; doi: 10.1177/00258024231182361 | |
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Alternative report concerning torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in Switzerland (Switzerland's eighth periodic report 2019) : 77ème session of the Committee against Torture (CAT) (July 10 to 28, 2023) | |
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20230612 | |
UN. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | |
UN. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984) | prison conditions | pre-trial detention | intersex persons | torture prevention effectiveness | repatriation, involuntary | prosecution for torture | judicial independence | federalism | complaint system effectiveness | death in custody statistics | solitary confinement | prison overcrowding | refugee reception policy | unaccompanied refugee minors | asylum procedure | deportation proceedings | immigration detention | quality assessment | training of police personnel effectiveness | training of prison personnel effectiveness | border control | risk of torture | risk assessment | refoulement prevention effectiveness | extradition | financial support | human rights protection effectiveness | national institution's role | NPMs | legal aid accessibility | medical examination on admission | detainee rights | diplomatic assurances | criminal procedure | torture definition | criminal investigation of torture effectiveness | criminal law | torture criminalisation | state compliance | domestic implementation | Switzerland | |
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ACAT-Suisse | ACT212 | Augenauf | Amnesty International (AI) | Association pour la prévention de la torture (APT) | AsyLex | Brava | humanrights.ch | InterAction | Organisation mondiale contre la torture (OMCT) | Organisation Suisse d’aide aux réfugiés (OSAR) | Pro Mente Sana | FIACAT | |
ART : 32441 : Not available for external loan | |
Prisoner lives cut short : the need to address structural, societal and environmental factors to reduce preventable prisoner deaths | |
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20230600 | |
Oxford University Press | |
Mulgrew, Róisín | |
death in custody prevention | prisoner rights | risk factors | state obligations | prison conditions effects | right to life | prisoner violence effects | prison health care delivery | prison health care quality | torture prevention | starvation | economic crisis | hygiene | water quality | poverty | food supply | corruption effects | criminal gangs | prisoner self-rule | riot control adverse effects | risk factors | firearms | physical restraint adverse effects | prison personnel violence | prison overcrowding effects | communicable disease control effectiveness | case law | international legal instruments | health services accessibility | medical examination on admission | prison inspection's role | prison oversight effectiveness | universal | |
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Human rights law review ; vol. 23, no. 2 | |