International human rights instruments

Treaties

CAT – Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

CERD – International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

CRC – Convention on the Rights of the Child

CRPD – Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

ICCPR – International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

ICESCR – International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

OPCAT – Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Standards and guidance

Beijing – United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (The Beijing Rules)

BOP – Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment

BPRL – Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers

BPTP – Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners

BPUF – Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials

CCLEO – Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials

CRC CO – United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, UN Doc CRC/C/GBR/CO/5, 12 July 2016

DPT – Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

DRM – Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities

HR – United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty (‘Havana Rules’)

Riyadh – United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (The Riyadh Guidelines)

SMR – Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

SRT – United Nations Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Juan E. Méndez, UN Doc A/HRC/28/68, 5 March 2015

Regional human rights instruments

Treaties

ECHR – European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

Standards and guidance

CPT – European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Juveniles deprived of their liberty under criminal legislation, CPT/Inf(2015)1-part rev1, 2015.

EPR – Recommendation Rec(2006)2 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the European Prison Rules

ERJO – Recommendation CM/Rec(2008)11 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the European Rules for juvenile offenders subject to sanctions or measures