Archives Detention Monitoring Template

40.12. Forcible feeding is prohibited.

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

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

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40.07. Physicians are familiar with international guidelines on the ethics of clinical management of hunger strikers and act accordingly.

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40.06. There is a protocol for clinical management and care of detainees who refuse food and/or fluids and for the recovery and psychological care of those who have ceased hunger strike.

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40.05. There are effective procedures for identifying, anticipating, preparing for and monitoring conditions or high-risk events that may provide triggers for hunger strike.

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40.04. There are effective procedures for identifying personal factors, including clinical depression, that may put individual detainees at risk of hunger strike.

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40.03. A meals register is used to record meal attendance and staff note carefully and unobtrusively non-attendance or other fasting.

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