Part 1 19 Law enforcement personnel need to be familiar with the following human rights standards: • Right to life;20 • Prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;21 • Prohibition of discrimination;22 • Freedom from arbitrary arrest or detention;23 • Right to a fair trial;24 • Respect for private and family life;25 • • Right Freedom to life; of20thought, conscience, religion or 26 • Prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or belief; • punishment; Freedom of21expression; and27 • • Prohibition Freedom of ofassociation discrimination; and 22the right of 28 • Freedom arbitrary arrest or detention; 23 peacefulfrom assembly. 20 OSCE Ministerial Council, “OSCE Charter on Preventing and Combating Terrorism”, Porto, 7 December 2002, <http://www.osce.org/odihr/16609>; OSCE Ministerial Council, Ministerial Statement, “Preventing and Combating Terrorism”, Sofia, 7 December 2004, <http://www.osce.org/mc/38760>; OSCE Ministerial Council, Ministerial Declaration, “Ministerial Declaration on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, Helsinki, 5 December 2008, <http://www.osce.org/ mc/35476>; Article 6, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), Article 2; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFREU), Article 2; and American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (ADRDM), Article 1. 21 OSCE Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, “Questions Relating to Security in Europe: Principles”, Vienna, 1989, <http://www.osce.org/mc/16262>; OSCE Conference on the human dimension of the CSCE, Copenhagen Document, Copenhagen, 29 June 1990, <http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/14304>; OSCE Conference on the human dimension of the CSCE, Moscow Document, Moscow, 3 October 1991, <http:// www.osce.org/odihr/elections/14310>; OSCE Summit, “Charter for European Security: III. Our Response”, Istanbul, 19 November 1999, <http://www.osce.org/mc/17502>; OSCE Ministerial Council, Decision No. 12/05, “Upholding Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Criminal Justice Systems”, Ljubljana, 6 December 2005, <http://www. osce.org/mc/17347>; OSCE Helsinki Document, op. cit. note 20; OSCE Ministerial Council, Ministerial Declaration, “Ministerial Declaration on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”, Athens, 2 December 2009, <http://www.osce. org/cio/40697>; ICCPR, Article 7; ECHR, Article 3; and CFREU, Article 4. 22 OSCE Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, Final Act, “Questions Relating to Security in Europe: 1(a) Declaration on Principles Guiding Relations between Participating States – Principle VII”, Helsinki, 1975, <http://www.osce.org/ mc/39501?download=true>; OSCE Copenhagen Document, op. cit. note 21; ICCPR, Article 26; ECHR, Article 14; CFREU, Article 21; and ADRDM, Article 2. 23 OSCE Copenhagen and Moscow Documents, op. cit. note 21; ICCPR, Article 9; ECHR, Article 5; CFREU, Article 6; and ADRDM; Article 25.

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