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40.19. Physicians providing clinical care in places of detention have access to professional support and training on professional and ethical standards of treatment, and ready access to debriefing and counselling services.

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40.15. Where a child begins a hunger strike, an early assessment is made of the child’s mental competence to refuse nourishment, and the views of the child are given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child.

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40.16. Physicians unable for reasons of conscience to abide by a hunger striker’s refusal of treatment or artificial feeding make early referrals to physicians willing to do so.

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40.17. There is a care policy that enables a detainee on hunger strike to die with dignity.

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40.18. There is a policy of actively and, as far as possible, alleviating the aspects of detention likely to trigger hunger strikes.

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40.08. The individual’s intentions and mental competence to refuse nourishment are medically assessed early.

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40.09. Separation or isolation, in any form, are not used as a method for non-clinical management of hunger strikers.

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40.10. Hunger strikers are not given medical treatment against their will, including rehydration and artificial feeding.

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40.11. The right to treatment is unconditional, and the right to refuse some forms of treatment and not others is respected.

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40.12. Forcible feeding is prohibited.

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