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  4. Combatting ill-treatment and impunity
  5. Monitoring pre-trial detention and material detention conditions: A Guide for NPMs
  6. Monitoring visits

Monitoring visits

 

1. Basic principles of monitoring

 


4. How to write a visit report and follow-up

 


7. Women

 

 

 


10. Detainees with disabilities or serious medical conditions

 


13. Special situations in detention facilities

 

2. How to prepare a visit

 


5. The general prison population

 

 


8. Foreign detainees and detainees belonging to national minorities

 


11. Detainees in high security settings

 

 


 

3. How to gather information

 


6. Pre-trial detainees

 

 


9. Children and young adults in detention

 

 


12. LGBTI+ persons

 

 

 

 


 

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