ICJ addresses OSCE on human rights and terrorist listing and sanctions regimes
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.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, A/HRC/27/55, 30 June 2014
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II. Activities of the Working Group in 2013 D. Prevention of imminent arbitrary deprivation of liberty 62. Under the Working Group’s current methods of work, there is no mechanism addressing situations where there is sufficiently reliable information that the...
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