9th World Day Against the death penalty, 10 october 2011
The 9th World Day Against the Death Penalty will focus on the inhumanity of the death penalty as a cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment.
ICJ Kenya Mombasa Round table series on strengthening human rights protection in Africa
The Kenyan Section of the ICJ and other human rights institutions will be convening the Third Roundtable on strengthening the African human rights system in Mombasa, Kenya from 20 – 21 October 2011.
Pakistan: ICJ high-level mission to examine the independence of the Judiciary since the Lawyers’ Movement
The ICJ announces the beginning of a six-day High-Level Mission to Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad to examine the role of the judiciary and the separation of powers in Pakistan.
UN: Sub-Commission on the administration of justice – ICJ oral intervention
The ICJ urged the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights to further press for the regulation or prohibition of military courts.
This is essential for the proper administration of justice, respect of the right to fair trial and the eradication of impunity, the ICJ said.
UN Sub-Commisssion-administrration justice-non-legal submission-2011 (full text, PDF)
Italy : migrants rights are undermined by rushed EU law implementation
The ICJ today expressed its concern at the move by the Italian Government to extend the maximum length of administrative detention for undocumented migrants to up to 18 months.
The measure is contained in certain provisions of the draft legislation ratifying Law Decree no. 89 of 2011, approved on 14 July by the House of Representatives and now under consideration by the Senate, which aims at implementing EU Directive 2008/115/EC (“the Return Directive”).
Italy-migrant rights-press release-2011-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Italy-migrant rights-press release-2011-ita (full text in Italian, PDF)
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