Oct 30, 2009 | News
The Coalition of International NGOs against Torture (CINAT) strongly condemns Zimbabwe’s refusal to receive an officially planned fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe by the United Nations (UN).
The visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Mr. Manfred Nowak, was postponed at the last minute by Zimbabwe’s Foreign Ministry while he was on transit to the country.
Zimbabwe-blockmission-news-2009 (full text, PDF)
Sep 23, 2009 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
La CIJ destaca la importancia de que el Estado chileno este estudiando la promulgación de un nuevo Código de Justicia Militar, que suprima la jurisdicción de los tribunales castrenses sobre los civiles.
Sep 23, 2009 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
La Comisión Internacional de Juristas (CIJ) recuerda que en la sesión del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Examen Periódico Universal de Uruguay en mayo de 2009, se formularon varias recomendaciones al Estado.
Sep 18, 2009 | Advocacy, Analysis briefs
The ICJ wants that alternative to detention become the cornerstone of every migration policy.
In a statement at the UN Human Rights Council Panel on Human Rights of Migrants in detention centres, the ICJ drew attention to the fact that States increasingly treat migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, as a potential threat to state security, and automatically subject them to measures such as administrative detention.
Sep 8, 2009 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
In this review, the ICJ addresses the breaches or risks of breaches of Italy’s human rights obligations.
These are resulting from:
- its immigration law, policy and practice; frequent expulsions on grounds of national security;
- widespread attacks on the judiciary and its members;
- the abuse of the state secrets privilege in order to obstruct the prosecution and trial of international crimes, and the failure to define torture as a criminal offence in its domestic legislation.
Italy-ICJ submission UPR-non-legal submission-2009 (full text in English, PDF)
