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Specific standards:
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
Guidelines on article 14, The right to liberty and security of
persons with disabilities, Adopted during the Committee’s
14th session, September 2015
• Detainees with disabilities in Europe, Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe, Resolution 2223 (2018)
• Commission Recommendation of 27 November 2013 on
procedural safeguards for vulnerable persons suspected or
accused in criminal proceedings, OJ C 378, 24.12.2013
• United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment
of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules), Resolution adopted
by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
• Prison systems and conditions, European Parliament
Resolution of 5 October 2017 on prison systems and conditions
(2015/2016(INI)), P8TA(2017)0385
Additional readings:
• Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,
A/63/175, 28 July 2008
• Mental health in prison: a short guide for prison staff, Penal
Reform International, April 2018
• Mental Health and Prisons: Information Sheet, World Health
Organization/ICRC, October 2005
• Prison and health, World Health Organisation, 2014
• Detention and mental health, ECtHR, March 2020
• Prisoners’ health-related rights, ECtHR, July 2020
2.2.5. LGBTIQ prisoners
LGBTIQ persons in places of detention are particularly, and in some jurisdictions,
extremely vulnerable. Centuries of stigmatization, discrimination and abuse
against these groups are exacerbated in the conditions where, unlike in the
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