ICJ response to the questionnaire on best practices that promote and protect the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

Apr 27, 2012

The ICJ responded to a questionnaire prepared by the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.

ICJ submission to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

Apr 20, 2012

The submission undertakes a general exposition of standards and jurisprudence, followed by more specific attention to the question of administrative and preventive detention.

Pursuant to the call by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention – one of the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council – for written information to assist in its deliberations on “the definition and scope arbitrary deprivation of liberty under customary international law”, the ICJ made a submission pertaining to the definition, scope and content of arbitrary detention, under international standards and jurisprudence.

Following an overview of standards and jurisprudence, it focuses on administrative and preventive detention, including in respect of counter-terrorism measures, which has given rise to the most abusive practices by States in respect of the rights to liberty. It also briefly highlights the question of detention of migrants.

Submission working Group detention-analysis brief-2012 (full text in English, PDF)

ICJ briefing paper in support of the negotiations on the recast of the Dublin Regulation 343/2003

Apr 17, 2012

The ICJ presented a case-law note as a contribution to the ongoing negotiations on the recast of the Dublin Regulation.

The submission outlines relevant international human rights case-law on the right to information and personal interview, guarantees for children and unaccompanied miinors, detention, the right to a remedy and the definition of family.

EU-briefing Dublin Regulation-analysis brief-2012 (full text in English, PDF)

Human Rights Council: NGOs closing statement

Mar 30, 2012

At the closing of the 19th session of the Human Rights Council, held on 27 February to 23 March 2012, the ICJ joined a statement delivered on behalf of nine NGOs.The statement comments on key elements that will continue to influence the work of the Council, namely concerning:

1. reprisals against human rights defenders;
2. addressing gross and chronic human rights violations;
3. the Council’s first panel discussion on ending human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity;
4. NGO participation in the work of the Council and its subsidiary bodies; and
5.  innovative approaches to the work of the Council.

joint statement-analysis brief-2012 (full text in English, PDF)