Part II: Preventing torture: NHRIs in action
UN Office on Drugs and Crime
• Handbook on Women and Imprisonment, 2nd edition, with reference to the United Nations
Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-Custodial Measures for Women
Offenders (The Bangkok Rules) (2014)
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and World Health Organization, Women’s Health
in Prison: Action Guidance and Checklists to Review Current Policies and Practices (2011)
Brenda van den Bergh and Alex Gatherer, WHO Regional Office for Europe; Tomris Atabay
and Fabienne Hariga, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Other Principles or Declarations
• Yogyakarta Principles (2006) and Yogyakarta Principles Plus (2017)
• The Nairobi Declaration on Women’s and Girls’ Right to a Remedy and Reparation (2007)
Regional instruments and standards
Africa
• African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• Robben Island Guidelines for the Prohibition and Prevention of Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Africa
• African Commission Guidelines on the Conditions of Arrest, Police Custody and Pre-Trial
Detention in Africa (Luanda Guidelines) (2014)
• African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
• African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, General Comment on
article 30 of the African Charter on Rights and Welfare of the Child
• Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in
Africa (Maputo Protocol)
• African Union Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa
• The African Union Gender Policy and Agenda 2063
• Pan-African Parliament Model Police Law for Africa (2019)
Americas
• Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture
• Principles and Best Practices on the Protection of Persons Deprived of Liberty in the
Americas
• Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence
against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará) of 1999 specifically recognises the right of
women not to be subject to torture (article 4).
• OAS General Assembly resolutions on ‘Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender
Identity and Expression’
• IACHR Rapporteurship on the Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty and to Prevent and
Combat Torture
• IACHR Rapporteurship on the Rights of Women
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