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342 | PRACTITIONERS GUIDE No. 6Special Rapporteur ontorture and other cruel,inhuman or degradingtreatment or punishmentSpecial Rapporteur ontrafficking in persons,especially in womenand childrenSpecial Rapporteur onviolence against women,its causes and consequencesSpecial Rapporteur onthe independence ofjudges and lawyersSpecial Rapporteur onextreme poverty andhuman rightsLetters of allegations:http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Torture/SRTorture/Pages/Allegation.aspxUrgent appeals:http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Torture/SRTorture/Pages/Appeals.aspxhttp://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Trafficking/Pages/complaints.aspxhttp://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/SRWomen/Pages/Complaints.aspxhttp://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Judiciary/Pages/Complaints.aspxhttp://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Poverty/Pages/Individualcomplaints.aspxb) The Working Group on Arbitrary DetentionThe Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) is the only UNSpecial Procedure whose mandate expressly provides for considerationof individual ‘complaints’ rather than merely ‘communications’, therebyrecognising a right of petition of individuals anywhere in the world. 1529The WGAD may also take up cases on its own initiative. 1530The Law: The WGAD bases its decisions on individual complaints on theUniversal Declaration of Human Rights, the Body of Principles for theProtection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment,the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights for States Partiesto it, the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners; theUN Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of Their Liberty, andthe UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of JuvenileJustice, as well as any other relevant standard. 15311529 See, Resolutions 1991/42 and 1997/50 of the UN Commission on Human Rights; Decision2006/102 of the UN Human Rights Council; and Resolution 6/4 of the UN Human Rights Council.1530 Revised Methods of Work, WGAD, in Fact Sheet No. 26, The Working Group on ArbitraryDetention, OHCHR, Annex IV, para. 13.1531 Ibid., para. 7.