Oct 31, 2003 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
A group of international Non-Governmental Organizations has launched a Joint Declaration calling on the United Nations to monitor the impact on human rights of the fight against terrorism.
Practices such as torture, detention without judicial review, unfair trial, criminalisation of acts in exercise of fundamental rights, and suppression of the right to association have been sharply on the rise as a result of measures taken in the fight against terrorism.
The Declaration calls on the UN Commission on Human Rights at its 60th session in March/April 2004 to establish as a matter of utmost priority an independent mechanism on the question of human rights and counter-terrorism.
Joint declaration on the need for an international mechanism to monitor human rights and counter-terrorism [full text, PDF]
Oct 7, 2003 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
In a letter addressed today to the President of Lebanon, the ICJ requested that the Government stop all disciplinary proceedings against two lawyers who represented a well-known human rights lawyer.
Aug 22, 2003 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
In accordance with international law, the ICJ urges the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights to further press for the regulation or prohibition of military courts.
This is essential for the proper administration of justice, respect of the right to fair trial and the eradication of impunity.
UN intervention justice-non-judicial submission-2003 (full text in English, PDF)
Aug 19, 2003 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
In its third letter to President Assad of Syria, the ICJ urged the Syrian Government to allow Mr. Al-Maleh, a prominent human rights lawyer, to leave the country.
Aug 18, 2003 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
In a letter addressed to G. W. Bush today, the ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers expressed its alarm at a recent directive by Attorney General John Ashcroft to federal prosecutors to report judges who depart from U.S. sentencing guidelines to the Justice Dpt.
Aug 8, 2003 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
La CIJ a exprimé ses préoccupations à l’égard de l’administration de la justice par les tribunaux militaires et de la discrimination sur la base de l’orientation sexuelle dont les justiciables sont victimes dans le cadre des systèmes de justice pénale.
Sub-Commission55-oral intervention point 3-non-judicial submission-2003 (full text in French, PDF)
