Please find below links to international and domestic human rights standards relevant to the treatment of people deprived of their liberty in the UK. Links will open in a new tab.
United Nations
- UN Convention Against Torture
- UN Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture
- UN Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons
- UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Nelson Mandela Rules)
- UN Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (Bangkok Rules)
- UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (Beijing Rules)
- UN Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty
- Istanbul Protocol: Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- UN Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial Measures (Tokyo Rules)
- UN Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment
- UN Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners
- UN Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment
- UN Principles on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- UN Principles for the protection of persons with mental illness and the improvement of mental health care
- UN Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials
- UN Guidelines for Action on Children in the Criminal Justice System
- CAT General Comment No. 2 Implementation of article 2 by States parties
- Human Rights Council. (2020). Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Forty-third session, Agenda item 3.
- UN Commission on Human Rights. (2005). Civil and Political Rights, Including the Questions of Torture and Detention Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture, Manfred Nowak. E/CN.4