Sep 26, 2011 | News
The ICJ is urging the Members of the House of Representatives to dismiss the draft legislation on evidence in criminal trials which could exacerbate further the already dramatic delays in Italian judicial proceedings.
The legislation would eliminate the possibility for a judge to reject the admission of “superfluous” and even “manifestly superfluous” evidence, allowing the parties to a case to call an almost infinite number of witnesses, and potentially delaying the case indefinitely. It also would make it unduly difficult to incorporate previous final rulings on the same case as prima facie evidence of the facts in the proceedings.”
Italy-length-criminal-trial-web story-2011-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Italy-length-criminal-trial-web story-2011-ita (full text in Italian, PDF)
Sep 21, 2011 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
The UN Human Rights Council adopted the outcome document of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Greece.
The ICJ made a statement during this adoption process, urging the implementation of recommendations accepted by Greece related to protecting the rights of asylum seekers, particularly concerning their treatment in Greece.
It also called on Greece to reconsider its decision to reject the recommendation of the UPR Working Group that Greece accede to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families.
Greece-icj oral intervention-non-judicial submission-2011
Sep 21, 2011 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
The UN Human Rights Council adopted the outcome document of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Belgium.
The ICJ made a statement during this adoption process, urging the implementation of recommendations accepted by Belgium related to protecting the rights of asylum seekers.
It also called for the formal abolition by Belgium of mechanisms of automatic expulsion that fail to take into consideration the principle of non-refoulement, and urged Belgium to reconsider its decision to reject the recommendation of the UPR Working Group that Belgium accede to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families.
Belgim-ICJ oral interventipn-non-judicial submission-2011
Sep 20, 2011 | Advocacy, Legal submissions
It is expected that the draft General Comment will be considered by the Committee during its 47th session in November 2011.
Comment concerning implementation of article 14 on rights to redress- legal submission-2011 (full text, PDF)
