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 159