Preventing Torture An Operational Guide for National Human Rights Institutions - Updated Edition Further readings United Nations instruments and standards • Universal Declaration of Human Rights Treaties • Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment • Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights • Convention on the Rights of the Child • International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women • International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance Other standards • Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law (2005) • Principles relating to the Status of National Institutions (The Paris Principles) • UN Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (Bangkok Rules) (2010) • UN Standard Minimum Rules on the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) (2016) • The Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death (2016): The Revised United Nations Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions • Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Istanbul Protocol: Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; Professional Training Series No.8/Rev.2 (2022) Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture • The approach of the SPT to the concept of prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment under the OPCAT (2010) • Prevention of torture and ill-treatment of women deprived of their liberty (2016) • Prevention of torture of LGBTI persons (2016) • Guidelines on national preventive mechanisms, Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, Cat/ OP/12/5 (2010) 156