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safe drinking water89 and sanitation,90 including access to such basic hygiene products such
as soap and toilet paper free of charge,91 and adequate sleeping arrangements, including a
clean mattress and bedding.92
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Failure to ensure proper implementation of these rights has led to violations of other
rights, including the right to safety and security, as inadequate food provision has led to
tensions in places of detention and even violence,93 as well as freedom from cruel, inhuman
or degrading treatment.94 Clean water supply, effective sewage and waste disposal, hygienic
food preparation and general hygiene practices are all essential to a clean and healthy
prison environment and to preventing and controlling the spread of disease,95 and their
absence can also negatively affect the right to health96 and even the right to life.97
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Right to education and rehabilitation
24.
Underlining that detainees constitute a highly marginalized group facing endemic
violations of their right to education, the Special Rapporteur on the right to education has
emphasized the negative impact of overcrowding on the exercise of this right.
Overcrowding puts significant strain on the available resources as demand exceeds the staff
and facilities available.98 It is common that people in places of detention are locked in
overcrowded cells for 23 hours a day without any purposeful out-of-cell activity99 and no
rehabilitation programmes,100 without possibilities to continue their education101 or take part
in skills development and vocational programmes.102
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See www.achpr.org/files/sessions/37th/missionreports/ethiopia/misrep_specmec_priso_ethopia_2004_eng.pdf, p. 33. See also Council of Europe
document CPT/Inf (2014) 26, para. 110; A/HRC/25/71, para. 35; and CAT/OP/BEN/1, para. 208.
See A/HRC/13/39/Add.5, para. 91; A/HRC/25/60/Add.1, para. 44; CCPR/C/BGR/CO/3, para. 18; and
CCPR/C/NIC/CO/3, para. 17.
See CAT/C/FIN/CO/5-6, para. 14; CAT/C/GRC/CO/5-6, para. 14; CAT/C/MDA/CO/2, para. 18;
CCPR/C/JAM/CO/3, para. 23; CAT/OP/BEN/1, para. 208; and CPT/Inf (2014) 26, para. 101.
See CAT/OP/BRA/1, para. 106, and CAT/OP/MEX/1, para. 187.
See CAT/OP/PRY/1, para. 148; CAT/OP/BRA/1, para. 137; A/HRC/22/53/Add.2, para. 47; Tibi v.
Ecuador, Inter-American Court of Human Rights Judgement (2004), para. 150;
www.achpr.org/files/sessions/12th-eo/mission-reports/promotion_mission2012/mission_report_mauritania_cpta_eng.pdf, para. 75; and Council of Europe document CPT/Inf
(2015) 12, para. 65.
See CAT/C/TGO/CO/2, para. 13, and CAT/OP/PRY/1, para. 183.
See Montero-Aranguren v. Venezuela, Inter-American Court of Human Rights Judgement (2006),
para. 99.
See A/HRC/23/41/Add.1, para. 52.
See CAT/C/PER/CO/5-6, para. 10; CAT/OP/BEN/1, para. 218; and
www.achpr.org/files/sessions/37th/mission-reports/prisons2004/misrep_specmec_priso_southafrica_2004_eng.pdf, p. 3.
See CAT/C/TGO/CO/2, para. 13, and CCPR/C/MOZ/CO/1, para. 14.
See A/HRC/11/8, para. 12, and Council of Europe document CPT/Inf (97) 10, para. 13.
See Boyce v. Barbados, Inter-American Court of Human Rights Judgement (2007), para. 93-94;
Council of Europe document CPT/Inf (2014) 26, para. 93; CAT/C/BGR/CO/4-5, para. 21; and
A/HRC/13/39/Add.5, para. 234.
See Juvenile Reeducation Institute v. Paraguay, Inter-American Court of Human Rights Judgement
(2004), para. 134.24; Council of Europe document CPT/Inf (2014) 31, para. 56; A/HRC/25/60/Add.1,
para. 85; and A/HRC/22/53/Add.2, para. 47.
See CAT/OP/MEX/1, para. 170.
See www.achpr.org/files/sessions/37th/mission-reports/prisons2004/misrep_specmec_priso_southafrica_2004_eng.pdf, p. 54; and Council of Europe document
CPT/Inf (2014) 21, para. 43.
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