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The Detention Justice Forum (DJF) released a statement in response to the findings of the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Service on solitary ...

This submission was made to the Subcommitee for the Prevention of Torture and Other and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT) on 13 ...

Advice of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture to States Parties and National Preventive Mechanisms relating to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Solitary Confinement - A review of the legal framework and practice in five African countries

This report investigates the legal frameworks of five African countries (Kenya Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia) as they relate to the use of ...

Developments in Addressing Torture in Mozambique

This article assesses developments in the prevention and eradication of torture in Mozambique. Despite several positive efforts and advances made, acts of ...

Desenvolvimentos na abordagem da tortura em Moçambique: Um relatório situacional

Este artigo avalia a evolução na prevenção e erradicação da tortura em Moçambique. Reportado por Tina Lorizzo e Vanja Petrovic

This submission to the South African parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services' strategic planning session addresses the issues of ...

This article was published in AHRLJ Volume 15 No 1 2015. Although South African courts have expressly held that any evidence obtained through torture is always ...

This submission discusses the 2013/14 Department of Correctional Services (South Africa) Annual Report. More specifically, it discusses human rights violations ...

Prevention of Torture

The right not to be subject to torture and other ill-treatment is non-derogable; no one may be subjected to torture and other ill-treatment under any ...