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Specific standards:46
• United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners
and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the
Bangkok Rules)
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women
• Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment on the
applicability of the prohibition of torture and other
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
in international law to the unique experiences of women,
girls, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex
persons, A/HRC/31/57, 5 January 2016
• Pathways to, conditions and consequences of incarceration
for women, Special Rapporteur on violence against women,
its causes and consequences, A/68/340, 21 August 2013
• Women deprived of their liberty, Extract from the 10th
General Report of the CPT, published in 2000, CPT/
Inf(2000)13-part
• Women in prison, Factsheet 2018, CPT/Inf(2018)5, European
Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)5 of the Committee of
Ministers to member States concerning children with
imprisoned parents, Council of Europe, 4 April 2018
• Prevention of torture and ill-treatment of women deprived
of their liberty, CAT/OP/27/1, SPT, 18 January 2016
• Prison systems and conditions, European Parliament
Resolution of 5 October 2017 on prison systems and
conditions (2015/2016(INI)), P8TA(2017)0385
• Women deprived of liberty; Report of the Working Group
on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in
practice, 15 May 2019, A/HRC/41/33
Additional reading/sources:
• Gender Perspectives on Torture: Law and Practice, Center
for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Anti-Torture
46. For the texts of the relevant parts of the documents cited below see: https://apt.ch/detention-focus/
en/vulnerable_groups/1/?related_standards, accessed 1 October 2020.
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