ICJ submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Guatemala

Apr 11, 2012 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions

Under the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, the UN Human Rights Council Working Group on the UPR will be undertaking a review of Guatemala during its 14th session.

In a submission to the Working Group, the International Commission of Jurists has focused on the discrete issues of:

1. lack of independence of the judiciary;
2. impunity for gross human rights violations committed during the armed conflict;
3. lack of access to justice for indigenous people and impunity for human rights violations against them;
4. abolition of the death penalty; and
5. Guatemala’s party status to international human rights instruments and its cooperation with the UN treaty bodies and the Council’s Special Procedures.

Guatemala-ICJ submission UPR-non-judicial submission-2012 (full text in English, PDF)

Guatemala-Comparison second cycle-advocacy-2012 (full text in English, PDF)