Resources
Handbook on Effective Police Responses to Violence against Women
The Handbook is intended to assist and guide police officers in the prevention of, and response to, violence against women. It is formulated primarily for use by police in transitional and developing countries where institutional means to protect women from violence have not yet been created or implemented.
Guidelines on the Role of Prosecutors
The Guidelines have been formulated to assist Member States of the United Nations in their tasks of securing and promoting the effectiveness, impartiality and fairness of prosecutors in criminal proceedings. The Guidelines provide, among others, that States should ensure that the selection criteria for prosecutors should embody safeguards against appointments based on partiality or prejudice, excluding any discrimination against a person on the grounds of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, social or ethnic origin, property, birth, economic or other status.
Handbook for National Action Plans on Violence against Women
The Handbook assembles current knowledge on effective policy for the prevention of and response to violence against women. The Handbook likewise presents a model framework for National Action Plans on violence against women, providing recommendations, accompanied by explanatory commentaries and good practice examples.
Handbook for the Judiciary on Effective Criminal Justice Responses to Gender-Based Violence against Women and Girls
This handbook is intended as a practical tool for the enhancement of the knowledge, skills and institutional capacity of the judiciary in handling cases of gender-based violence against women and girls.
State of Human Rights in 2018
The report of the Human Rights Commission in Pakistan provides a view on the state of human rights in Pakistan. It focuses on certain key issues including laws and lawmaking, administration of justice, international human rights mechanisms, law and order, jail and prisoners, freedom of movement, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, political participation, women, children, labor, the elderly, people living with disabilities, refugees and IDPs, education, health, housing, and environment.
Handbook on Effective Prosecution Responses to Violence Against Women and Girls
The Handbook on Effective Prosecution Responses to Violence Against Women and Girls is intended as a resource for individual prosecutors and prosecution services to build on. Given the diversity of structures and approaches to prosecution in various legal systems, the Handbook is limited to the general prosecutorial powers and functions.
Global Study on Homicide: Gender-Related Killing of Women and Girls
The study provides an overview of the scope of gender-related killing of women and girls. It provides an in-depth analysis of killing perpetrated within the family sphere and examines forms of gender-related killings perpetrated outside the family sphere.
Report of the Committee on Amendments to Criminal Law (Verma Committee Report), India
The Committee was constituted to recommend amendments to the Criminal Law of India in order to provide speedier trials and to enhance punishment for criminals accused of committing sexual assault against women. The Committee made recommendations on laws related to rape, sexual harassment, trafficking, child sexual abuse, medical examination of victims, police, electoral and education reforms.
UN Committee Against Torture, General Comment No. 2: Implementation of Article 2 by State Parties, CAT/C/GC/2 (24 January 2008)
The General Comment addresses three parts of Article 2 of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment which identifies distinct interrelated and essential principles undergirding the Convention's absolute prohibition against torture. The Committee reminded all States parties to the Convention of the non-derogable nature of the obligations undertaken by them in ratifying the Convention.
UN Handbook for Legislation on Violence Against Women
The Handbook for Legislation on Violence Against Women aims to guide stakeholders in the adoption and implementation of legislation to prevent violence against women. The Handbook sets out the international and regional legal and policy frameworks governing the enactments and implementation of laws to address violence against women. It further provides a model framework for legislation on violence against women.