Preventing Torture An Operational Guide for National Human Rights Institutions - Updated Edition
UN Working Group on the Issue of Discrimination against Women in Law
and Practice
• Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in
practice to the Human Rights Council (8 April 2016) (A/HRC/32/44),
• Women deprived of liberty; Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination
against women in law and in practice (May 2019) (A/HRC/41/3315)
Human Rights Council
• Human Rights Council resolution 46/15, Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment: the roles and responsibilities of police and other law enforcement
officials (23 March 2021) (A/HRC/RES/46/15)
• Human Rights Council resolution 37/19, The negative impact of corruption on the right to be
free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (23 March
2018) (A/HRC/RES/37/19)
• Human Rights Council resolution 31/31, Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment: safeguards to prevent torture during police custody and pre-trial
detention (24 March 2016) (A/HRC/RES/31/31)
• Human Rights Council resolution 13/19, Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment: the role and responsibility of judges, prosecutors and lawyers (15
April 2010) (A/HRC/RES/13/19)
• Human Rights Council resolution 10/24, Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment: the role and responsibility of medical and other health personnel
(26 March 2009) (A/HRC/RES/10/24)
• UN Human Rights Council Resolution 39/17, National Human Rights Institutions, (8 October
2018) (A/HRC/RES/39/17).
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
• Integrating a gender perspective into human rights investigations: Guidance and practice
(2018)
• Fact sheet: Women and detention. September 2014.
• Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, The Role of
Prevention in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (16 July 2015) (A/HRC/30/20)
• From Planning to Impact: A Manual on Human Rights Training Methodology; Professional
Training Series No. 6/Rev.1 (revised 2019)
• Manual on Human Rights Monitoring; OHCHR; revised 2011
• UNDP-OHCHR Toolkit for collaboration with NHRIs; UNDP-OHCHR; 2010
• Preventing torture: the role of National Preventive Mechanisms. A practical guide.
Professional Training Series No. 21; OHCHR (2018)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• Guidelines on the Applicable Criteria and Standards relating to the Detention of AsylumSeekers and Alternatives to Detention (2014)
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