Human Rights Council – Countering Terrorism: ICJ oral intervention
Oral intervention of the ICJ on counter-terrorism.
Joint intervention by the ICJ and HRW on disappearances in various countries
The human rights groups welcome the update by the Chair of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.
Human Rights Council: oral intervention of the ICJ on Internally Displaced Persons
The ICJ welcomes the report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka.
IV Session of the Human Rights Council: ICJ’s oral intervention
On 15 March 2007, the ICJ made an oral intervention during the interactive dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the fourth session of the Human Rights Council.
Response to the European Commission Consultation on Inciting, Aiding or Abetting Terrorist Offences
The ICJ sets out its views on the human rights compatibility of offences of incitement to acts of terrorism, and on the appropriate limits of such offences in European Union law and in the national laws of European states.
In its Response to the European Commission Consultation on Inciting, Aiding or Abetting Terrorist Offences, submitted on 15 February 2007, the ICJ concludes that incitement to acts of terrorism should be a criminal offence only where there is a subjective intention to incite acts of terrorism, and where the speech concerned causes the commission of an act of terrorism or an imminent risk of such an act. There is a risk that broadly-worded offences of apologie, encouragement, justification or glorification of terrorism will lead to violations of the right to freedom of expression and of the principle of legality, and will have a chilling effect in inhibiting constructive debate, in particular in minority communities. The full submission is attached below.
Europe-EC Consultation Terrorist Offences-non-judicial-submission-2007 (full text, PDF)
Statement by the ICJ on the progress reports and further discussion or decisions of the working group on the universal periodic review
Oral statement of the ICJ on the Progress reports and further discussion or decisions of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, released on Monday 4 December 2006 at the third session of the Human Rights Council.
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