International Commission of Jurists
Joint declaration on the need for an international mechanism to monitor human rights and counter-terrorism

Joint declaration on the need for an international mechanism to monitor human rights and counter-terrorism

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]

 

UN Sub-Commission on human rights: ICJ intervention on the administration of justice

UN Sub-Commission on human rights: ICJ intervention on the administration of justice

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)

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