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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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