This policy briefing forms part of a series explaining human rights issues raised by the Grenfell Tower fire.

This briefing focuses on the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, explaining:

• what the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment is
• its source in international law
• what it means in practice
• how it is relevant to Grenfell and the work of the Grenfell inquiry