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ICJ addresses OSCE on human rights and terrorist listing and sanctions regimes

ICJ addresses OSCE on human rights and terrorist listing and sanctions regimes

Jul 1, 2014 | Events, Uncategorized

The ICJ’s Director of International Law and Protection Programmes, Alex Conte, today addressed the Human Dimension Committee of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on the subject of human rights and terrorist listing and sanctions regimes.

The ICJ’s intervention:

  • Provided an overview of the procedures for the listing and delisting of individuals or entities in the sanctions lists of the Security Council’s Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee;
  • Outlined the legal challenges and implications concerning the relationship between human rights and relevant Security Council resolutions, emphasising that regional courts have held States to account for any violation of human rights, irrespective of whether this comes about as a result of implementing Security Council listing and sanctions resolutions; and
  • Identified some minimum safeguards applicable by States in their implementation of sanctions.

 

ICJ convenes expert roundtable on asylum claims based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression

ICJ convenes expert roundtable on asylum claims based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression

Jun 27, 2014 | Agendas, Events

The ICJ is today holding an expert roundtable on asylum claims based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

Participants include asylum judges and lawyers; officials from national refugee status determination authorities, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; asylum academics; and staff members from other NGOs, including the Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration (ORAM), the Human Dignity Trust (HDT), the Advice on Individual Rights in Europe (AIRE) Centre and the Belgian Refugee Council.

At the roundtable, taking place in Brussels, participants will discuss: the legal challenges and responses in the context of asylum claims based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and refugee law; reflections on the UNHCR’s Guidelines on International Protection No. 9: Claims to refugee status based on Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity; the concept of persecution and assessment of evidence in the context of those claims; and the relevance of European human rights law to asylum claims based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

The programme of the expert roundtable can be downloaded here.

This roundtable forms part of a broader project of the ICJ on international protection claims based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. The ICJ’s commentary on the related CJEU judgment in X, Y and Z v The Netherlands can be downloaded here.

 

 

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