Review of the standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners 2013, para. 32
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- The Special Rapporteur fully endorses the proposal by the Expert Group to include a new preamble that would include a list of the fundamental principles contained in already adopted treaties and guidelines regarding treatment in detention (see Rule 3 and E/CN.15/2012/CRP.2, sect. 4). Some proposed preambles (for example, that proposed in UNODC/CCPCJ/EG.6/2012/NGO/1), however, refer to instruments that set out standards that fall short of those recognized in subsequent instruments; these earlier instruments should not, therefore, be cited in the Rules. For instance, the standards set out in the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care (1991), have, in various important respects, been superseded by the higher standards set out in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (see A/HRC/22/53, para. 58).
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 32
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