Alternatives to detention for asylum seekers and people in return procedures
Compilation of key resources to promote the use of alternatives to immigration
detention in practice
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Right to liberty: selected instruments .................................................................................... 6
Alternatives to detention. selected instruments .................................................................... 7
2.1. Selected non-binding United Nations (UN) instruments relating to alternatives to detention ............ 7
United Nations General Assembly ......................................................................................................... 7
General comments by UN treaty bodies ............................................................................................... 8
Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme (ExCom) ............................................. 9
UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ........................................................................................... 9
Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants ......................................................................... 10
Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.... 11
2.2. Selected non-binding Council of Europe instruments relating to alternatives to detention............... 12
2.3. Selected European Union law on alternatives to detention ................................................................ 14
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Alternatives to detention: selected case law ....................................................................... 16
European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ............................................................................ 16
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ..................................................................... 17
United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) .................................................................. 17
4. Alternatives to detention: tools .......................................................................................... 19
5. Selected research documents.............................................................................................. 21
Useful links ................................................................................................................................. 23
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