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Detentions, Trials, Independence of the Judiciary: standards and mechanisms
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules)
Administration of Justice: UNHCR Page
English, Francais, French, Espanol, Spanish
Human Rights Defenders: OHCHR Page
Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Independence of the Judiciary: OHCHR Page
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: OHCHR Page
Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions (UNHCHR page)
Mandate, Methods of work, Issues of special concern, Information needed to take action, Model questionnaire of the Special Rapporteur, etc.
Alternate URLs:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/executions/annual.htm
Date of entry/update:
18 November 2010
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
Description/subject:
Reports to the Human Rights Council and General Assembly. This site has links to most of the UN human rights documents available online on Burma (Myanmar), in the 6 official UN languages.
Arabic, Chinese, English, Espanol, Francais, Russian
Source/publisher:
United Nations
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Alternate URLs:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/countries/mm/mandate/index.htm
Date of entry/update:
03 June 2003
Special Rapporteur on Torture (OHCHR page)
Description/subject:
Mandate, model questionnaire, documents, news etc. Links to standards and other mechanisms.
English, Francais, French, Espanol, Spanish
Source/publisher:
Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: OHCHR Page
Description/subject:
Documents, members, Fact Sheet, press releases etc.
English, Francais, French, Espanol, Spanish
Source/publisher:
Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Alternate URLs:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/detention/
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/detention/annual.htm
Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
Individual Documents
Handbook on Habeas Corpus in Myanmar (English)
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Description/subject:
"...International law guarantees the right of all individuals deprived of their liberty to an expeditious judicial procedure in which an independent and impartial court reviews the legality of their detention and orders the release of individuals wrongfully detained.1 This right is commonly referred to as ‘habeas corpus’ in legal systems that are based on common law. The right entitles anyone who is deprived of liberty by arrest or detention to take proceedings before a court, in order that the court may decide without delay on the lawfulness of the detention and order release if the detention is not lawful. The right to challenge the lawfulness of detention before a court is a self-standing human right, the denial of which constitutes a human rights violation. Habeas corpus protects personal liberty or physical integrity by means of a judicial decree ordering the appropriate authorities to bring the detained person before a judge so that the lawfulness of the detention may be determined and, if appropriate, the release of the detainee ordered. In Myanmar under military rule from 1962 until 2008, there was no effective mechanism to challenge the lawfulness of detention before a court. One of the major (and unanticipated) improvements in Myanmar’s 2008 Constitution was the reintroduction of the writ of habeas corpus. Since then, the government has passed an “Application of Writs Act 2014” and the Supreme Court has promulgated rules and procedures for its implementation. In order to assist and propel the process of judicial reform and strengthen the protection of human rights, the International Commission of Jurists provides this discussion of the law relevant to the writ of habeas corpus under international law as well as Myanmar’s current national law. The following are of particular significance: • Analysis of international standards for challenging arbitrary or unlawful arrest or detention (including that which results in torture and ill-treatment of detainees)... • Analysis of Myanmar’s current legal framework for the Constitutional writ of habeas corpus... • Analysis of the seemingly forgotten and underutilized procedure for challenging arbitrary arrest and detention (similar to the writ of habeas corpus) under Section 491 of the 1898 Code of Criminal Procedure... • Analysis of the few publicly available recent petitions for the writ of habeas corpus... • Analysis of relevant existing precedents (pre-1962) from the Myanmar judiciary’s case law on habeas corpus....."
Source/publisher:
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
Format/size:
pdf (672K-reduced version; 842K-original)
Alternate URLs:
http://www.icj.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Myanmar-Handbook-on-Habeas-Corpus-Publications-Report...
Date of entry/update:
27 June 2016
Handbook on Habeas Corpus in Myanmar - Burmese (ျမန္မာဘာသာ)
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နိဒါန္းႏွင့္ အႏွစ္ခ်ဳပ္ အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာဥပေဒမွ လူသားတစ္ဦးခ်င္း၏ အခြင့္အေရးျဖစ္သည့္ လြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ကုုိ တရား လက္လြတ္ဆုံး႐ႈံးခံရမႈအေပၚ လ်င္ျမန္ေသာ တရားေရးက်င့္ထုံးဥပေဒ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးျခင္း အခြင့္အေရးအတြက္ အာမခံေပးထားရာ ၎တြင္ အမွီအခုုိကင္း၍ ဘက္မလုိက္သည့္တရား႐ုံးမွ ၎တုိ႔အား ဥပေဒအရ ထိန္းသိမ္းခံထား ရမႈအေပၚ သုံးသပ္ျပီး မွားယြင္းစြာထိန္းသိမ္းခံရသူမ်ားအား လႊတ္ေပးရန္ အမိန္႔ေပးပုုိင္ခြင့္ရွိသည္။1 အဆုုိပါ လုပ္ထုုံး လုုပ္နည္းသည္ အဂၤလိပ္႐ိုးရာဥပေဒ (common law) ကုိ အေျခခံထားေသာ ဥပေဒစနစ္မ်ားပါ ေလွ်ာက္ထားလႊာ ျဖစ္သည့္ တရား႐ုုံးေရွ႕ေတာ္သြင္း စာခၽြန္ေတာ္အမိန္႔ကုုိ ေယဘုုယ်အားျဖင့္ ရည္ညႊန္းပါသည္။2 ယင္းအခြင့္အေရး သည္ ဖမ္းဆီးျခင္း သုိ႔မဟုတ္ ထိန္းသိမ္းျခင္းခံရမႈမွ လြတ္ေျမာက္ခြင့္ကုိ တရားလက္လြတ္ဆုံး႐ႈံးျခင္း ၾကံဳေတြ႔သည့္ မည္သူမဆို တရား႐ံုးတြင္ အမႈခင္းဆုိင္ရာေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္ရပုိင္ခြင့္ရွိသည္။ သုိ႔မွသာ တရား႐ုံးမွ ေႏွာင့္ေႏွးမႈမရွိဘဲ ထိန္းသိမ္းမႈသည္ ဥပေဒႏွင့္အညီ ျဖစ္၊ မျဖစ္ကုိ ဆုံးျဖတ္ေပးျပီး၊ အကယ္၍ တရားဥပေဒႏွင့္ အညီမျဖစ္ပါက ျပန္လည္လႊတ္ေပးရန္ အမိန္႔ထုတ္ဆင့္ျခင္းျပဳရမည္။3 တရား႐ံုးတြင္ ထိန္းသိမ္းျခင္းဆုိင္ရာ တရားဝင္မႈ ရွိ၊ မရွိ (lawfulness)ကုိ စိန္ေခၚႏုိင္ခြင့္သည္ မိမိကုိယ္ ကုိရပ္တည္ႏုိင္သည့္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးတစ္ရပ္ျဖစ္ျပီး ၎အား ျငင္းကြယ္ျခင္းသည္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈ တစ္ရပ္ပင္ ျဖစ္သည္။4 တရား႐ုံးေရွ႕ေတာ္သြင္းစာခၽြန္ေတာ္အမိန္႔သည္ ပုဂၢလိကဆုိင္ရာ လြတ္လပ္မႈ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ ရုပ္ပုိင္းဆုိင္ရာ ဂုဏ္သိကၡာကုိ တရားစီရင္ေရးအမိန္႔ဒီဂရီအားျဖင့္ ကာကြယ္မႈေပးရာ ၎တြင္ ထိန္းသိမ္းခံရသူအား တရားသူၾကီးမ်က္ေမွာက္သုိ႔ ေခၚေဆာင္ရန္ အမိန္႔ထုတ္ဆင့္ျပီး ထိန္းသိမ္းခံရသူသည္ ဥပေဒႏွင့္အညီ ထိန္းသိမ္း ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ကုိ ဆုံးျဖတ္ႏုိင္ျခင္း၊ သင့္တင့္ေလ်ာက္ပတ္ပါက ထိန္းသိမ္းခံရသူကုိ ျပန္လည္လႊတ္ေပးႏုိင္ရန္ အမိန္႔ ထုတ္ဆင့္ႏုိင္ျခင္းတုိ႔ကုိ ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏုိင္ပါသည္။5 ျမန္မာႏုုိင္ငံ၏ စစ္တပ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးလက္ေအာက္တြင္ ဥပေဒအရေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း သုုိ႔တည္းမဟုုတ္ လက္ ေတြ႔ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈအားျဖင့္ေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း ဥပေဒႏွင့္အညီဖမ္းဆီးျခင္းႏွင့္ ထိန္းသိမ္းျခင္းအား သုုံးသပ္သည့္ တရားစီရင္ေရးအတြက္ ထိေရာက္ေသာယႏၱရား မရွိခဲ့ေပ။6 ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ၏ ၂၀၀၈ ဖြဲ႕စည္းပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒရွိ ႀကီးမား ေသာ (မေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားေသာ) တုိးတက္မႈတစ္ရပ္မွာ တရား႐ုံးေရွ႕ေတာ္သြင္း စာခၽြန္ေတာ္အမိန္႔ဆုိင္ရာ စာခၽြန္ ေတာ္အမိန္႔ကုိ ျပန္လည္မိတ္ဆက္ထည့္သြင္းေပးျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။7 ထုိအခ်ိန္မွစ၍ အစုိးရက “၂၀၁၄ ခုႏွစ္ စာခၽြန္ေတာ္ အမိန္႔ ေလွ်ာက္ထားမႈဆုိင္ရာဥပေဒ” ကုိျပ႒န္းခဲ့ျပီး ျပည္ေထာင္စုတရားလႊတ္ေတာ္ခ်ဳပ္မွ အဆုိပါဥပေဒကုုိ အေကာင္ အထည္ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈအတြက္ နည္းဥပေဒသမ်ားႏွင့္ လုပ္ထုံးလုပ္နည္းမ်ားကုိ ျပ႒ာန္းေပးထားပါသည္။8တရားစီရင္ေရးဆုိင္ရာ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးႏွင့္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကာကြယ္မႈ အားေကာင္းလာေစေရး လုပ္ ငန္းစဥ္ကုိ ကူညီတြန္းအားေပးရန္အတြက္ အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာ ဥပေဒပညာရွင္မ်ားေကာ္မရွင္ (ICJ) အေနျဖင့္ ႏုိင္ငံ တကာဥပေဒႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ၏လက္ရွိ ျပည္တြင္းဥပေဒတို႔အရ တရား႐ုံးေရွ႕ေတာ္သြင္း စာခၽြန္ေတာ္အမိန္႔ႏွင့္ စပ္ဆက္မႈရွိသည့္ ဥပေဒဆုိင္ရာ ဤေဆြးေႏြးမႈစာတမ္းကုိ ေရးသားထားပါသည္။ ေအာက္ပါအခ်က္မ်ားသည့္ အထူးအေရးပါေသာ အခ်က္မ်ားျဖစ္သည္။ • တရားလက္လြတ္ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ တရားမဝင္ ဖမ္းဆီးျခင္း (သို႔မဟုုတ္) ထိန္းသိမ္းျခင္းကုိ စိန္ေခၚမႈျပဳရန္အတြက္ အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာစံႏႈန္းကုုိစိစစ္ျခင္း (၎တြင္ ႏိွပ္စက္ျခင္းႏွင့္ မညွာမတာျပဳလ်က္ထိန္းသိမ္းျခင္းတုိ႔ ပါဝင္သည္) • ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ၏ ဖြဲ႕စည္းပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒဆိုင္ရာ တရား႐ုံးေရွ႕ေတာ္သြင္း စာခၽြန္ေတာ္အမိန္႔အတြက္ လက္ရွိ ျမန္မာ့ဥပေဒမူေဘာင္ကုိ စိစစ္ျခင္း၊ • ၁၈၉၈ ခုႏွစ္ ရာဇဝတ္က်င့္ထုုံးဥပေဒ(CrPC) ပုုဒ္မ ၄၉၁ ရွိတရားလက္လြတ္ ဖမ္းဆီးထိန္းသိမ္းျခင္းကုိ စိန္ေခၚမႈျပဳျခင္း (တရား႐ံုးေရွ႕ေတာ္သြင္း စာခၽြန္ေတာ္အမိန္႔ ႏွင့္ အလားတူသည့္) အတြက္ ေမ့ေလ်ာ့လုနီး ျဖစ္ျပီး တင္းျပည့္က်ပ္ျပည့္ အသုံးမခ်ရေသးသည့္ လုပ္ထုံးလုပ္နည္းကုိ စိစစ္ျခင္း၊ • တရား႐ံုးေရွ႕ေတာ္သြင္းစာခၽြန္ေတာ္အမိန္႔အတြက္ မၾကာေသးမီက အနည္းငယ္ေသာ အမ်ားျပည္သူ လက္လွမ္း မီွႏိုုင္သည့္ေလွ်ာက္ထားခ်က္မ်ားကုိ စိစစ္ျခင္း၊ • တရား႐ုုံးေရွ႕ေတာ္သြင္း စာခၽြန္ေတာ္အမိန္႔ဆုိင္ရာ ျမန္မာႏုုိင္ငံတရားစီရင္ေရး၏ ျဖတ္ထုံးမ်ားမွ သက္ဆုုိင္ ရာတည္ဆဲျဖတ္စီရင္ထုံး (၁၉ ၆၂ မတုုိင္မီ)ကုုိ စိစစ္ျခင္း၊ ဤစိစစ္ခ်က္ (ႏွင့္ ၎အေပၚအေျချပဳသည့္ အၾကံျပဳခ်က္မ်ား) အေရးၾကီးရျခင္းမွာ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈမ်ား
Burmese (ျမန္မာဘာသာ)
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International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
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pdf (1.4MB-reduced version; 4.2MB-original)
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28 June 2016
Principles on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Date of publication:
04 December 2000
Description/subject:
Recommended by General Assembly resolution 55/89 of 4 December 2000 * ..... Adopted by General Assembly resolution 55/89 Annex, 4 December 2000
Source/publisher:
Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/investigation.htm
http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/694d7f1d5f11b70cc1256a0f0031bdce/$FILE/N0056473.pdf
Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
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Description/subject:
Commission on Human Rights resolution 2000/43
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Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING QUESTIONS OF: TORTURE AND DETENTION
Date of publication:
27 January 1999
Description/subject:
CONTENTS: Paragraphs ... Introduction 1 - 7 I. THE PRACTICE OF TORTURE: SCOPE AND CONTEXT A. General issues 8 - 18 B. Information concerning police and jandarma stations 19 - 23 C. Information concerning prisons 24 - 25 D. Information concerning individual cases 26 - 28 II. THE PROTECTION OF DETAINEES AGAINST TORTURE A. Legal issues 29 - 52 B. Medical issues 53 - 68 III. IMPUNITY 69 - 98 IV. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 99 - 113 Annex* Selected cases submitted by non-governmental organizations to the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture from 12 October to 12 December 1998
Source/publisher:
United Nations
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Date of entry/update:
22 November 2010
Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers
Date of publication:
07 September 1990
Description/subject:
Adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Havana, Cuba, 27 August to 7 September 1990
Source/publisher:
Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Alternate URLs:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/lawyers.htm
Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Date of publication:
26 June 1987
Description/subject:
Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 39/46 of 10 December 1984 ..... entry into force 26 June 1987, in accordance with article 27 (1)
Source/publisher:
Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Alternate URLs:
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6b3a94.html
Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary
Date of publication:
13 December 1985
Description/subject:
Adopted by the Seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders held at Milan from 26 August to 6 September 1985 and endorsed by General Assembly resolutions 40/32 of 29 November 1985 and 40/146 of 13 December 1985
Source/publisher:
United Nations
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Alternate URLs:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/indjudiciary.htm
Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
Date of publication:
13 May 1977
Description/subject:
Adopted by the First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, held at Geneva in 1955, and approved by the Economic and Social Council by its resolution 663 C (XXIV) of 31 July 1957 and 2076 (LXII) of 13 May 1977
Source/publisher:
United Nations
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http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/treatmentprisoners.htm
Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
International Covenent on Civil and Political Rights (articles on arbitrary detention etc. - English)
Date of publication:
23 March 1976
Description/subject:
entry into force 23 March 1976... Articles 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16
Source/publisher:
United Nations
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Alternate URLs:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm
Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Date of publication:
09 December 1975
Description/subject:
Adopted by General Assembly resolution 3452 (XXX) of 9 December 1975
Source/publisher:
United Nations
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Alternate URLs:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/declarationcat.htm
Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (articles on arbitrary detention etc. - Burmese)
Date of publication:
10 December 1948
Description/subject:
adopted by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948. Articles 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
Source/publisher:
Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Alternate URLs:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Language.aspx?LangID=bms
Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (articles on arbitrary detention etc. - English)
Date of publication:
10 December 1948
Description/subject:
adopted by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948... Articles 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
Source/publisher:
Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Alternate URLs:
http://www.ohchr.org/en/udhr/pages/language.aspx?langid=eng
Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (articles on arbitrary detention etc. - Pwo-Karen)
Date of publication:
10 December 1948
Description/subject:
adopted by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948 Articles 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
Source/publisher:
United Nations
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http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Language.aspx?LangID=pwo
Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (articles on arbitrary detention etc. - S'gaw-Karen)
Date of publication:
10 December 1948
Description/subject:
adopted by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948. Articles 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
S'gaw-Karen
Source/publisher:
United Nations
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Alternate URLs:
http://ia700200.us.archive.org/3/items/rosettaproject_ksw_undec-1/rosettaproject_ksw_undec-1.pdf
http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_ksw_undec-1
Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (articles on arbitrary detention etc. Shan)
Date of publication:
10 December 1948
Description/subject:
adopted by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948. Articles 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
Source/publisher:
United Nations
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Alternate URLs:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Language.aspx?LangID=sjn
Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
Right to a Fair Trial: OHCHR Page
English, Francais, Espanol
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Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/training9chapter7en.pdf (part ii)
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?docid=49f180362
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?page=search&skip=0&query=Right+to+a+...
Date of entry/update:
23 November 2010
Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners: UNHCHR Page
Description/subject:
Adopted by the First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, held at Geneva in 1955, and approved by the Economic and Social Council by its resolutions 663 C (XXIV) of 31 July 1957 and 2076 (LXII) of 13 May 1977
English, Francais, French, Espanol, Spanish
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United Nations
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Alternate URLs:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/treatmentprisoners.htm
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/treatmentprisoners.pdf