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Title | Date added | Template | Original document | Paragraph text | Body | Document type | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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Rio+20 – Conference on Sustainable Development: The future we want 2012, para. 132 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | We note that transportation and mobility are central to sustainable development. Sustainable transportation can enhance economic growth and improve accessibility. Sustainable transport achieves better integration of the economy while respecting the environment. We recognize the importance of the efficient movement of people and goods and access to environmentally sound, safe and affordable transportation as a means to improve social equity, health, resilience of cities, urban-rural linkages and productivity of rural areas. In this regard, we take into account road safety as part of our efforts to achieve sustainable development. | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2012 | ||
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2011, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges States not to expel, return (“refouler”), extradite or in any other way transfer a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture, stresses the importance of effective legal and procedural safeguards in this regard, and recognizes that diplomatic assurances, where used, do not release States from their obligations under international human rights, humanitarian and refugee law, in particular the principle of non-refoulement; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2017, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the importance of the implementation of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which makes a significant contribution to the prevention and prohibition of torture, including by prohibiting secret places of detention and by ensuring legal and procedural safeguards for persons deprived of their liberty, and encouraging all States that have not done so to consider signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. These authorities shall take their decision in the same manner as in the case of any ordinary offence of a serious nature under the law of that State Party. In the cases referred to in article 9, paragraph 2, the standards of evidence required for prosecution and conviction shall in no way be less stringent than those which apply in the cases referred to in article 9, paragraph 1. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 6. Extradition shall, in all cases, be subject to the conditions provided for by the law of the requested State Party or by applicable extradition treaties, including, in particular, conditions relating to the minimum penalty requirement for extradition and the grounds upon which the requested State Party may refuse extradition or make it subject to certain conditions. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 4. Each State Party shall ensure in its legal system that the victims of enforced disappearance have the right to obtain reparation and prompt, fair and adequate compensation. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Considering the obligation of States under the Charter of the United Nations to promote universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms, | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Also recalling the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution 47/133 of 18 December 1992 , | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. Before an observation on a State Party is published in the annual report, the State Party concerned shall be informed in advance and shall be given reasonable time to answer. This State Party may request the publication of its comments or observations in the report. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. Any amendment adopted by a majority of two thirds of the States Parties present and voting at the conference shall be submitted by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to all the States Parties for acceptance. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 3g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [3. Each State Party shall assure the compilation and maintenance of one or more up-to-date official registers and/or records of persons deprived of liberty, which shall be made promptly available, upon request, to any judicial or other competent authority or institution authorized for that purpose by the law of the State Party concerned or any relevant international legal instrument to which the State concerned is a party. The information contained therein shall include, as a minimum:] (g) In the event of death during the deprivation of liberty, the circumstances and cause of death and the destination of the remains; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 3h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [3. Each State Party shall assure the compilation and maintenance of one or more up-to-date official registers and/or records of persons deprived of liberty, which shall be made promptly available, upon request, to any judicial or other competent authority or institution authorized for that purpose by the law of the State Party concerned or any relevant international legal instrument to which the State concerned is a party. The information contained therein shall include, as a minimum:] (h) The date and time of release or transfer to another place of detention, the destination and the authority responsible for the transfer. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. A State Party may at the time of ratification of this Convention or at any time afterwards declare that it recognizes the competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications from or on behalf of individuals subject to its jurisdiction claiming to be victims of a violation by this State Party of provisions of this Convention. The Committee shall not admit any communication concerning a State Party which has not made such a declaration. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: Mandate of the Special Rapporteur 2011, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcoming the entry into force of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the implementation of which will make a significant contribution to the prevention and prohibition of torture, including by prohibiting places of secret detention and encouraging all States that have not ratified or acceded to the Convention to consider doing so, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Without prejudice to article 6, each State Party shall take the necessary measures to prevent and impose sanctions for the following conduct:] (b) Failure to record the deprivation of liberty of any person, or the recording of any information which the official responsible for the official register knew or should have known to be inaccurate; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Without prejudice to article 6, each State Party shall take the necessary measures to prevent and impose sanctions for the following conduct:] (c) Refusal to provide information on the deprivation of liberty of a person, or the provision of inaccurate information, even though the legal requirements for providing such information have been met. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification for enforced disappearance. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. Appropriate measures shall be taken, where necessary, to protect the persons referred to in paragraph 1 of this article, as well as persons participating in the investigation, from any ill-treatment, intimidation or sanction as a result of the search for information concerning a person deprived of liberty. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 3. Any State Party having made a declaration in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2 of this article may at any time withdraw this declaration by notification to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 3a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [3. Each State Party shall assure the compilation and maintenance of one or more up-to-date official registers and/or records of persons deprived of liberty, which shall be made promptly available, upon request, to any judicial or other competent authority or institution authorized for that purpose by the law of the State Party concerned or any relevant international legal instrument to which the State concerned is a party. The information contained therein shall include, as a minimum:] (a) The identity of the person deprived of liberty; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 3b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [3. Each State Party shall assure the compilation and maintenance of one or more up-to-date official registers and/or records of persons deprived of liberty, which shall be made promptly available, upon request, to any judicial or other competent authority or institution authorized for that purpose by the law of the State Party concerned or any relevant international legal instrument to which the State concerned is a party. The information contained therein shall include, as a minimum:] (b) The date, time and place where the person was deprived of liberty and the identity of the authority that deprived the person of liberty; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 3c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [3. Each State Party shall assure the compilation and maintenance of one or more up-to-date official registers and/or records of persons deprived of liberty, which shall be made promptly available, upon request, to any judicial or other competent authority or institution authorized for that purpose by the law of the State Party concerned or any relevant international legal instrument to which the State concerned is a party. The information contained therein shall include, as a minimum:] (c) The authority that ordered the deprivation of liberty and the grounds for the deprivation of liberty; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 3d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [3. Each State Party shall assure the compilation and maintenance of one or more up-to-date official registers and/or records of persons deprived of liberty, which shall be made promptly available, upon request, to any judicial or other competent authority or institution authorized for that purpose by the law of the State Party concerned or any relevant international legal instrument to which the State concerned is a party. The information contained therein shall include, as a minimum:] (d) The authority responsible for supervising the deprivation of liberty; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. Only where a person is under the protection of the law and the deprivation of liberty is subject to judicial control may the right to information referred to in article 18 be restricted, on an exceptional basis, where strictly necessary and where provided for by law, and if the transmission of the information would adversely affect the privacy or safety of the person, hinder a criminal investigation, or for other equivalent reasons in accordance with the law, and in conformity with applicable international law and with the objectives of this Convention. In no case shall there be restrictions on the right to information referred to in article 18 that could constitute conduct defined in article 2 or be in violation of article 17, paragraph 1. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2013, para. 19 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges States not to expel, return (“refouler”), extradite or in any other way transfer a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture, stresses the importance of effective legal and procedural safeguards in this regard, and recognizes that diplomatic assurances, where given, do not release States from their obligations under international human rights, humanitarian and refugee law, in particular the principle of non-refoulement; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2015, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges States not to expel, return (“refouler”), extradite or in any other way transfer a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture, stresses the importance of effective legal and procedural safeguards in this regard, and recognizes that diplomatic assurances, where given, do not release States from their obligations under international human rights, humanitarian and refugee law, in particular the principle of non-refoulement; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Also invites Governments, with the support of the United Nations, to formulate manuals for the training of personnel who receive and/or hold in temporary custody victims of gender-based violence, including trafficking, with a view to sensitizing them to the special needs of victims; | United Nations Commission on Human Rights | Resolution |
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ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. Such mutual legal assistance shall be subject to the conditions provided for by the domestic law of the requested State Party or by applicable treaties on mutual legal assistance, including, in particular, the conditions in relation to the grounds upon which the requested State Party may refuse to grant mutual legal assistance or may make it subject to conditions. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 2e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [2. Without prejudice to other international obligations of the State Party with regard to the deprivation of liberty, each State Party shall, in its legislation:] (e) Guarantee access by the competent and legally authorized authorities and institutions to the places where persons are deprived of liberty, if necessary with prior authorization from a judicial authority; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. The State Party in the territory under whose jurisdiction a person alleged to have committed an offence of enforced disappearance is found shall, if it does not extradite that person or surrender him or her to another State in accordance with its international obligations or surrender him or her to an international criminal tribunal whose jurisdiction it has recognized, submit the case to its competent authorities for the purpose of prosecution. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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