Mar 26, 2010 | News
Entre los días 22 y 26 de marzo la CIJ llevó a cabo una misión de alto nivel en Guatemala con el fin de observar el proceso de elección de Fiscal General. Durante la visita, la delegación de la CIJ mantuvo reuniones con los distintos actores involucrados en el proceso y con organizaciones de la sociedad civil enfocadas hacia la administración de justicia, en las que intercambió impresiones con sus interlocutores y procuró dar difusión a los estándares internacionales contenidos en las Directrices de Naciones Unidas sobre la función de los fiscales aprobadas por consenso por la Asamblea General, específicamente lo relativo al numeral primero que establece que “las personas designadas como fiscales serán personas probas e idóneas, con formación y calificaciones adecuadas”.
Guatemala-election Fiscal General-press release-2010-spa
Mar 18, 2010 | News
The ICJ welcomes important step taken by the Fundamental Rights Committee towards constitutionally guaranteeing fundamental rights in Nepal but also points out serious weaknesses.
Mar 15, 2010 | Feature articles, News
Lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit began his career as a lawyer in 1977. Khun Somchai was known for speaking out against unjust practices by the police and advocating for reform of the justice system. He disappeared in 2004.
Mar 11, 2010 | News
There are strong indications that the proceedings against Evgeniy Zhovtis failed to meet international fair trial standards, the ICJ said today, as it published the final report of a trial observation of the appeal hearing.
Feb 22, 2010 | News
The ICJ today deplored the decision of the US Justice Department to clear the legal architects of the US torture policy from any professional misconduct.
The decision by Associate Deputy Attorney General (ADAG) David Margolis reversed the July 2009 findings of the Office of Professional Conduct (OPR) that Bush administration legal advisers John Yoo and Jay Bybee had engaged in professional misconduct by giving advice which approved as lawful the program of “enhanced interrogation”. This program consisted in clear acts of torture and ill treatment.
The OPR had been poised to refer Yoo and Bybee, who is presently a US federal judge, for disciplinary action by the state regulatory authorities. The ADAG report, while affirming that the legal advisers had exercised ‘poor judgement’, determined that they had not breached rules of misconduct because it could not be established that they had intended to give misleading advise.
USA-torture serious crime-press release-2010 (full text, PDF)
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