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Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
The legal status of the prevention of arbitrary detention is based on the following international human rights provisions:
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
- Body of principles for the protection of all persons under any form of detention or imprisonment
- Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
- United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty
- United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (“The Beijing Rules”)
- Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951
- Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees of 1967
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishment
- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- United Nations Basic Principles and Guidelines on remedies and procedures on the right of anyone deprived of their liberty to bring proceedings before a court (A/HRC/30/37)