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Right to health and criminalization of same-sex conduct and sexual orientation, sex-work and HIV transmission 2010, para. 76b
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- [The Special Rapporteur calls upon States:] To repeal all laws criminalizing sex work and practices around it, and to establish appropriate regulatory frameworks within which sex workers can enjoy the safe working conditions to which they are entitled. He recommends that States implement programmes and educational initiatives to allow sex workers access to appropriate, quality health services;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 110
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- The Special Rapporteur would like to link his recommendations with the global call to double investment in adolescence as a major precondition of successfully attaining the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Effective and full implementation of the right to health framework, including justiciability of ESCR and the right to health; the progressive realisation of the right to health; the accountability deficit of transnational corporations; and the current ... 2014, para. 74
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- The Special Rapporteur recommends that States ratify the Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, thereby recognizing the competence of the respective committees to consider individual communications with a view to ensuring the availability of an international adjudicatory mechanism for individuals whose right to health has been violated. The Special Rapporteur further recommends that States recognize the competence of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to receive and consider inter-State communications.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Extreme poverty and human rights on universal basic income 2017, para. 73
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- Fifth, proponents of a basic income need to ensure that particular schemes to implement the concept are not narrowly linked to citizenship at the expense of all others who are part of the community.
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- Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The right to mental health 2017, para. 87
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- The urgent need for a shift in approach should prioritize policy innovation at the population level, targeting social determinants and abandon the predominant medical model that seeks to cure individuals by targeting “disorders”.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 133
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- Adequate financial resources should be made available to support and sustain restorative justice programmes, and to secure periodic capacity-building for justice actors, community volunteers and peer educators.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 110
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- The Special Representative looks forward to continuing to collaborate closely with Member States and all other stakeholders in the further strengthening of this crucial agenda to help build a world where violence has no place.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2012, para. 70
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- The Special Representative again urges all armed actors to review, as a matter of priority, the use of aerial attacks, including drones, and night raids so as to prevent incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Year
- 2012
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The right to an effective remedy for trafficked persons 2011, para. 60
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- All States of origin, transit or destination have an international legal obligation to provide remedies for trafficked persons where an act or omission attributable to them breaches an international obligation. In the context of trafficking, which involves in most cases the conduct of private persons, it is important to recall that States are under an obligation to provide remedies for trafficked persons where they fail to exercise due diligence to prevent and combat trafficking in persons or to protect the human rights of trafficked persons. The right to an effective remedy is also a fundamental human right in itself and States have a duty to respect, protect and fulfil this right. While discussions on the right to an effective remedy for trafficked persons at the international level often focus on the right to compensation, it is stressed that other components, such as recovery, restitution, satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition, are equally important aspects of a remedy. Viewed from this perspective, an effective remedy necessarily calls for individually tailored measures, based on a careful assessment of the best interests of that particular trafficked person.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Year
- 2011
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Role of forensic and medical sciences in the investigation prevention torture and other ill-treatment 2014, para. 60
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- There is a pressing need to step up the overall involvement of forensic medical science across the various sectors of the criminal justice cycle, and where persons are at particular risk, including administrative, pretrial and juvenile detention and psychiatric institutions. If police officers, prison wardens, hospital administrators, prosecutors and judges were under a legal obligation to request proper forensic medical examinations as a standard procedure whenever there are suspicions or allegations of torture or other ill-treatment, victims would be in a considerably stronger position. In addition to their role in prosecution, forensic medical services can also play a transforming role in prevention. As required in the Body of Principles and expanded in the standard-setting Istanbul Protocol, routine medical examinations of detainees after admission to every place of detention create a system of "checkpoints" that minimizes the number of unaccounted cases of torture and renders impossible a shifting of blame and accountability among various detention facilities and authorities.
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- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. B.
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- [Recommendations to Member States:] Put in place comprehensive programmes that allow identified bonded labourers to be able to access the support that they need to fulfil their right to rehabilitation.
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- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. B.
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- [Recommendations to Member States:] Invest in programmes that facilitate people's access to decent work opportunities, in order to ensure that they have economic alternatives to debt bondage.
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- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Study on illegal adoptions 2017, para. 96e
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- [At the national level] [At the national level] [Specifically in respect of intercountry adoptions:] Official fees must be sufficient to cover costs and full details must be made available for public consultation;
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- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Sale of children for the purpose of forced labour 2016, para. 100c
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- [The Special Rapporteur invites the international community to:] Encourage consumers to play a more active role in scrutinizing the origin of products and promoting ethical sourcing and other fair trade initiatives;
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- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The UN responsibility for the cholera outbreak in Haiti 2016, para. 81
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- Third, there is now a much stronger commitment to taking the rule of law seriously in the context of the approach adopted within the United Nations itself, and this needs to be reflected in the legal response to cholera in Haiti.
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- Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Minorities in the criminal justice system 2015, para. 92
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- Sources cited throughout this report provide States with many practical recommendations on how to improve the situation of minorities in the criminal justice system. Space considerations permit the Special Rapporteur to highlight only a few:
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- Special Rapporteur on minority issues
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2015
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The use of encryption and anonymity to exercise the rights to freedom of opinion and expression in the digital age 2015, para. 60
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- States should not restrict encryption and anonymity, which facilitate and often enable the rights to freedom of opinion and expression. Blanket prohibitions fail to be necessary and proportionate. States should avoid all measures that weaken the security that individuals may enjoy online, such as backdoors, weak encryption standards and key escrows. In addition, States should refrain from making the identification of users a condition for access to digital communications and online services and requiring SIM card registration for mobile users. Corporate actors should likewise consider their own policies that restrict encryption and anonymity (including through the use of pseudonyms). Court-ordered decryption, subject to domestic and international law, may only be permissible when it results from transparent and publicly accessible laws applied solely on a targeted, case-by-case basis to individuals (i.e., not to a mass of people) and subject to judicial warrant and the protection of due process rights of individuals.
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- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Year
- 2015
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Discrimination against Roma 2000, para. 48
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- [The Committee also recommends that:] The High Commissioner for Human Rights consider establishing a focal point for Roma issues within the Office of the High Commissioner.
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- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- Document type
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Year
- 2000
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 66j
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- [Criteria and indicators should be strengthened in accordance with the benchmarks and indicators for ensuring trafficking-free supply chains proposed by the Special Rapporteur (A/HRC/23/48/Add.4, appendix I) and should include at a minimum the following indicators:] Deductions made from workers’ wages are lawful;
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Extreme poverty and human rights on universal basic income 2017, para. 66f
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- [One of the biggest challenges in relation to basic income is to move beyond its chameleon-like character. There are many versions of it, and each is supported by a diverse array of actors, precisely because they see different attractions in the concept. To assess the utility and acceptability of basic income from a human rights perspective, it is helpful to identify the main categories of motivation.] Fairness and social justice.
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- Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The right to mental health 2017, para. 89
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- There are already promising initiatives in place throughout the world, including in low- and middle-income countries, which challenge the status quo. Creating the space, through strong political leadership and resources, to enable those practices to take shape in communities is a powerful means to promote and advance the changes needed.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Violence against women with disabilities 2012, para. 98l
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- [The Special Rapporteur recommends the following measures:] Establishment of a mechanism by which the special procedures of the Human Rights Council can collaborate with the Special Rapporteur on disability of the Commission on Social Development should be encouraged.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Year
- 2012
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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A human rights-based approach to the administration of criminal justice in cases of trafficking in persons 2012, para. 102
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- Lastly, the Special Rapporteur urges States to intensify efforts to strengthen the technical capacity of criminal justice administrators, in particular, that of judges, prosecutors and the police. A comprehensive curriculum on trafficking in persons, including online courses, should be mainstreamed in ongoing education training programmes.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Year
- 2012
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The issue of trafficking in persons for the removal of organs 2013, para. 78
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- All States should take steps to ensure that trafficking in persons for the removal of organs is fully and appropriately incorporated into national policies on trafficking in persons, including national action plans and national coordination and response mechanisms.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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A human rights-based approach to the administration of criminal justice in cases of trafficking in persons 2012, para. 93
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- The Special Rapporteur urges States to extend protection and assistance to victim-witnesses in cases of trafficking in person pretrial, during trials and post-trial. Experience has shown that victim-witnesses are most vulnerable post-trial, when they usually no longer benefit from witness protection programmes.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Year
- 2012
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The right to an effective remedy for trafficked persons 2011, para. 75
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- States should provide trafficked persons with temporary residence permits during the duration of any legal proceedings on an unconditional basis. The conditionality of temporary residence permits on cooperation with law enforcement authorities is the antithesis of the human rights-based approach to combating trafficking in persons and should be abolished.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Year
- 2011
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Regional and subregional cooperation in promoting a human rights-based approach to combatting trafficking in persons 2010, para. 122
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- [Regional mechanisms should carry out the activities set out in the following paragraphs, which have a specific added value:] Conduct studies and develop recommendations on how to address the challenges posed by the increasing use of communications technologies such as the Internet to channel demand and recruit victims.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 78
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- New technologies, in particular social networking, should be creatively and vigorously used and sustained to prevent and combat all forms of trafficking in persons, although it is recognized that its usage is limited in certain countries owing to the digital divide and access-related problems based on geographical location, age and gender differences.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Violence
- Year
- 2010
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 79
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- States should reinforce efforts to collect accurate data and statistics on trafficking in persons that will inform evidence-based comprehensive prevention strategies. Such collection and analysis of data on trafficking should extend beyond collecting general statistics and encompass careful research and analysis of the characteristics of individuals who are at higher risk of being trafficked, as well as profiles of traffickers and their modus operandi.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Year
- 2010
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Children deprived of their liberty from the perspective of the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2015, para. 86e
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- [With regard to conditions during detention, the Special Rapporteur calls upon all States:] To prohibit corporal punishment;
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- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Year
- 2015
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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