The ICJ addressed the UN Working Group on an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, meeting on a potential communications procedure for children claiming to be victims of violations.
UN-complaints procedure for the rights of the child-statement-2011
The ICJ addresses the practice of incommunicado detention, and the transfer of persons as part of the alleged cooperation of Spain in the US-led renditions programme.
The ICJ also draws attention to the threat to judicial independence posed by the recent prosecution of Investigative Judge Baltasar Garzón Real; to the recent limitations introduced on the use of universal jurisdiction to prosecute crimes under international law; and to the limited scope of the offence of torture contained in the Criminal Code.
Universal Periodic Review Spain-non-legal submission-2009 (full text, PDF)
In this brief, ICJ Commissioner Justice Ian Binnie (photo) describes the progress that has been made – and remains to be made – in developing an acceptable legal liability framework for corporate human rights violations.
In particular, Justice Binnie cites the ICJ’s Expert Panel Report on Corporate Complicity and the SRSG John Ruggie’s framework of “Protect, Respect, and Remedy,” as important advances in defining this framework.
He urges the greater development and use of both criminal and civil theories of liability for holding corporations accountable for violations.
He also calls for victims who have exhausted all local remedies to have access to an international body such as the International Criminal Court.
legalremedies-businessHR-analysis brief-2009 (full text, PDF)
La CIJ destaca la importancia de que el Estado chileno este estudiando la promulgación de un nuevo Código de Justicia Militar, que suprima la jurisdicción de los tribunales castrenses sobre los civiles.
La Comisión Internacional de Juristas (CIJ) recuerda que en la sesión del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Examen Periódico Universal de Uruguay en mayo de 2009, se formularon varias recomendaciones al Estado.
The ICJ urged the UN Human Rights Council to establish a new expert mandate to exercise early-warning of human rights violations in crisis situations, aimed at securing the protection of civilians in conflicts.
Such a mandate would carry out a fact-finding and make recommendations to the UN in order to prevent and help stop human rights violations and crimes, and to ensure accountability of their perpetrators.
ICJ Intervention Following the Update by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights-Open Letters-2009 (Full text, PDF)
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