Chemical Weapons Convention Bill, Articles 18-21 (2004)
PART III PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS AND RIOT CONTROL AGENTS Prohibition 18. (1) No person shall- (a) develop, produce, acquire, stockpile or retain any chemical weapon; (b) transfer, directly or indirectly, any chemical weapon to another person;...
Elements for a general recommendation on racial discrimination in the administration of justice
Racial discrimination remains a pervasive problem in criminal justice systems. While some countries are starting to recognize the deeply rooted nature of the phenomenon and to compile date in order to counter it, there is still little awareness for it in many countries.
Also, Government reports are often incomplete.
In order to give guidance to States on the issue, a General Recommendation by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is timely and useful.
This paper seeks to gather some ideas of recommendations from national reports, reports of the UN Special Rapporteurs and experts, NGO reports and other material. The recommendations are organized according to the different stages of the criminal justice system: police conduct, courts and prisons. It also gives some elements to be taken into account in more structural manner: access to justice, methods of structural, institutional change and data collection.
CERD Racial discrimination administration of justice-recommendations-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Observation of the trial of the Bar Association of Diyarbakir’s president and three other lawyers
The ICJ monitored the trial of Sezgin Tanrikulu, the President of the Diyarbakir Bar Association and three other lawyers, Sabahattin Korkmaz, Burhan Deyar and Habibe Deyar.
Papers delivered at the ICJ conference on “Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism: International Monitoring Systems”
The ICJ is pleased to make available the papers presented at the Conference held on 23 and 24 October 2003 in Geneva on “Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism: International Monitoring Systems”.




