Preventing Torture An Operational Guide for National Human Rights Institutions - Updated Edition Other relevant UN instruments include: • Guidelines on the Applicable Criteria and Standards relating to the Detention of AsylumSeekers and Alternatives to Detention (2012) • 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) • Model Autopsy Protocol (1991) • Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty (1990) • Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials (1990) • Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners (1990) • Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment (1988) • Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (The Beijing Rules) (1985) • Principles of Medical Ethics relevant to the Role of Health Personnel, particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1982) • Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials (1979). The UN Human Rights Council has made a number of thematic resolutions on the right to be free from torture and other ill-treatment, including on: • the roles and responsibilities of police and other law enforcement officials (2021)52 • the negative impact of corruption on the right to be free from torture and other ill-treatment (2018)53 • safeguards to prevent torture during police custody and pretrial detention (2016)54 • the role and responsibility of judges, prosecutors and lawyers (2010)55 and • the role and responsibility of medical and other health personnel (2009).56 3.2. Other international instruments The following instruments were developed by international experts and civil society groups: • Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering (2021)57 • The Yogyakarta Principles (2006) and the Yogyakarta Principles Plus (2017)58 • 36 The Nairobi Declaration on Women’s and Girls’ Right to a Remedy and Reparation (2007).59 52 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 (23 March 2021) 53 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). 54 Human Rights Council resolution 31/31, Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: safeguards to prevent torture during police custody and pretrial detention (24 March 2016) (A/HRC/RES/31/31). 55 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). 56 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). 57 Developed by a multidisciplinary group of experts under the coordination of the Association for the Precention fo Torture, the Anti-torture Initiative and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. Available under www.apt.ch. 58 Developed by a group of eminent international human rights experts, these principles outline how existing international human rights standards can be applied to sexual orientation and gender identity issues. 59 Adopted at an International Meeting on Women’s and Girls’ Right to a Remedy and Reparation, held in Nairobi from 19 to 21 March 2007, by women’s rights advocates and activists, as well as survivors of sexual violence in situations of conflict.