Outcome
Process
Structural
Table 4
Conditions of detention
Use of force by law enforcement
officials outside detention
Community and domestic violence
• Date of entry into force and coverage of specific
legislation on community and domestic violence
• Number of rehabilitation centres for victims of domestic
violence, including women and children
• Incidence of death and physical
injury resulting from arrests or other
acts of apprehending persons by law
enforcement officials in the reporting
period
• Proportion of law enforcement
officials formally investigated for
physical and non-physical abuse
or crime (including torture and
disproportionate use of force) in the
reporting period
• Proportion of formal investigations of
law enforcement officials resulting in
disciplinary action or prosecution
• Proportion of arrests and other acts
of apprehending persons where
a firearm was discharged by law
enforcement officials
• Proportion of public social expenditure on public
awareness campaigns on violence against women
and children (e.g., violence by intimate partners, genital
mutilation, rape)
• Proportion of health-care and community welfare
professionals trained in handling domestic violence issues
• Proportion of teaching staff trained against the use of
physical violence against children
• Proportion of teaching staff subjected to disciplinary
action, prosecuted for physical and non-physical abuse
of children
• Proportion of women reporting forms of violence
(physical, sexual or psychological) against themselves or
their children initiating legal action or seeking help from
police or counselling centres
• Number of persons arrested, adjudicated, convicted
or serving sentence for violent crime (including homicide,
rape, assault) per 100,000 population in the reporting
period
• Proportion of children or pupils per 1000 enrolled and
patients who experienced corporal punishment in schools
and medical institutions
• Incidence and prevalence of deaths and crimes related
to community and domestic violence (including homicide,
rape, assault) in the reporting period
All indicators should be disaggregated by prohibited grounds of discrimination, as applicable and reflected in metadata sheets
• Reported cases of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment perpetrated by an agent of the State or any other person acting under its authority or with its complicity,
tolerance or acquiescence, but without any or due judicial process (e.g., as reported to the Special Rapporteurs on torture/ violence against women), in the reporting period
• Proportion of victims of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment who received compensation and rehabilitation, in the reporting period
• Actual prison occupancy as a
proportion of prison capacity in
accordance with relevant United
Nations instruments on prison
conditions
• Proportion of detained and
imprisoned persons in accommodation meeting legally stipulated
requirements (e.g., drinking water,
cubic content of air, minimum floor
space, heating)
• Number of custodial and other
relevant staff per inmate
• Proportion of detention centres and
prisons with facilities to segregate
persons in custody (by sex, age,
accused, sentenced, criminal cases,
mental health, immigration-related
or other)
• Incidence and prevalence of death, physical injury and communicable and
non-communicable diseases (e.g., HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis,* mental
impairment) in custody
• Proportion of detained or imprisoned persons held incommunicado or in
prolonged solitary confinement
• Reported cases of inhuman methods of execution and treatment of persons
sentenced to death /incarcerated in the reporting period
• Proportion of detained or imprisoned persons with BMI < 18.5
• Proportion of detained or imprisoned
persons in facilities inspected by an
independent body in the reporting
period
• Proportion of custodial staff formally
investigated for physical and nonphysical abuse or crime on detained
or imprisoned persons (including
torture and disproportionate use of
force) in the reporting period
• Proportion of formal investigations of
custodial staff resulting in disciplinary
action or prosecution
• Proportion of received complaints on the right not to be tortured investigated and adjudicated by the national human rights institution, human rights ombudsperson or other mechanisms
and the proportion of these responded to effectively by the Government
• Proportion of communications sent by the Special Rapporteurs on torture and on violence against women responded to effectively by the Government in the reporting period
• Proportion of law enforcement officials (including police, military, specialized investigation agencies and custodial staff) trained in rules of conduct concerning proportional use of force,
arrest, detention, interrogation or punishment
• Date of entry into force of code of conduct for law enforcement officials, including rules of conduct for interrogation
of arrested, detained and imprisoned persons
• Date of entry into force and coverage of formal procedure governing inspection of police cells, detention centres
and prisons by independent inspection institutions
• Legal maxima for incommunicado detention
• Time frame and coverage of health policy for detention centres and prisons
• International human rights treaties relevant to the right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (right not to be tortured) ratified by the State
• Date of entry into force and coverage of the right not to be tortured in the constitution or other forms of superior law
• Date of entry into force and coverage of domestic laws for implementing the right not to be tortured, including code of conduct on medical trials and scientific experimentation
on human beings
• Type of accreditation of national human rights institution by the rules of procedure of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions
Physical and mental integrity of
detained or imprisoned persons
Illustrative indicators on the right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
or punishment (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 5)
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