MONITORING PLACES OF DETENTION : A PRACTICAL GUIDE
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Information and reports from domestic visiting bodies can also be
sent to other relevant UN bodies, as well as to regional human rights
mechanisms:
UN BODIES
Special procedures under the UN Human Rights
Commission
Special Rapporteur on Torture
■ Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judiciary
■ Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions
■ Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders
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Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
UN TREATY BODIES
Committee on Human Rights
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Committee against Torture
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Committee on the Rights of the Child
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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women
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Other thematic bodies, depending on the issue (for
example, Committee on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination)
UN SPECIALISED AGENCIES
■
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (particularly
programmes for the protection of refugees and internally displaced people)
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United Nations Development Programme (particularly
judicial reform programmes)
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UNICEF (particularly women and children in detention
programme)
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