(j) Improve conditions in places of detention, ensuring that they conform to international minimum standards, adopt necessary measures to reduce the pre trial detention period and continue to address overcrowding in places of detention

(i) Abolish the use of ungazetted or unauthorized places of detention or safe houses , and immediately provide information about all places of detention

(c) Access to all places of detention and their installations and facilities

He examines the implications of these conditions, specifically with respect to visiting places of detention.

The mortality rate among detainees has reportedly decreased in most places of detention.

(c) Subject to paragraph 2 below, unrestricted access to all places of detention and their installations and facilities

Approximately 79 per cent of the overall cost for detention services relates to detention guards.

I urge the Government to ensure United Nations personnel access to all places of detentions in Darfur.

(e) The number and percentage of persons belonging to those groups who are held in prison or preventive detention, including internment centres, penal establishments, psychiatric establishments or holding areas in airports

(j) While continuing its long term efforts to address overcrowding and poor conditions in prisons and other places of detention, including by building new prisons, consider additional alternative means of reducing the prison population as urgent measures to address the situation in places of detention

Efficient administration of juvenile justice was hampered by the absence of a coordinating body and the lack of an effective system for gathering information.

All unofficial places of detention should be investigated by the Government and if proved to exist should be immediately closed.

(e) Guarantee access by the competent and legally authorized authorities and institutions to the places where persons are deprived of liberty, if necessary with prior authorization from a judicial authority

(a) To receive the Subcommittee on Prevention in their territory and grant it access to the places of detention as defined in article 4 of the present Protocol

Many detainees are reported to have spent several years in detention, sometimes up to nine years, without sentence.

We have also allowed the International Committee of the Red Cross to operate in Nepal with full access to all places in Nepal, including places of detention.

As regards persons placed in administrative holding centres or in holding areas in airports, States parties should ensure that they enjoy sufficiently decent living conditions.

(a) Access to all information concerning the number of persons deprived of their liberty in places of detention as defined in article 4, as well as the number of places and their location

(j) Allow independent human rights monitors, including the Uganda Human Rights Commission, full access to all official and non official places of detention, without notice

The Special Rapporteur observes that in recent years much concern has been raised by Governments with respect to the above mentioned terms of reference, particularly with regard to unannounced visits to places of detention.

The cost of 270 per day for each cell includes the provision of detention guards, detainee accommodations, meals of detainees, laundry, other living expenses and basic medical care.

(j) Lack of access by independent monitors to visit and inspect all places of detention without prior notice, notwithstanding the assurances of the State party that it will allow some access by civil society organizations

(g) Establish an independent body with a mandate to visit and or supervise places of detention without prior notice, and allow impartial and NGOs to make visits to prisons and places where the authorities keep detainees

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(e) The date and time of admission to the place of detention and the authority responsible for the place of detention

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He fully supports the statement of the High Commissioner, in which she expressed her concerns about the erosion of the prohibition of torture in the context of counter terrorism, particularly the trend of seeking diplomatic assurances and the use of secret places of detention.

Substantive issues Arbitrary detention right to take proceedings before court to challenge lawfulness of detention

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(j) At the poor conditions of detention and long pre trial detention periods of up to three years

Subject matter Torture to obtain a confession, prison conditions, death from tuberculosis in detention

At the meeting of the Subcommittee, the Government also stated that the United Nations had been given access to all places of detention in Darfur, including access to persons detained by national security and military intelligence.

In all these places of detention, conditions are relatively pleasant, victims are apprised of their rights, representatives of NGOs are given access in order to render assistance and attempts are made to listen to the needs of the victims.

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We can position them in different places, orient them in different places.

In China, such letters of authorization could not be issued, which meant that officials of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs accompanied the Special Rapporteur throughout his mission in order to assure his unimpeded access to all places of detention.

(e) Reduce the length of pre trial detention

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In response, UNHCR and its partners sought access to detention sites, reporting on conditions and exploring alternatives to detention.

State and Territory leaders have agreed to enact legislation to give effect to measures which, because of constitutional constraints, the Commonwealth could not enact, including preventative detention for up to 14 days and stop, question and search powers in areas such as transport hubs and places of mass gathering.