U.N. member states should move quickly to establish a stronger human rights body as recommended by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, 15 leading human rights organizations said today.
In sentencing over 100 men to imprisonment and flogging after unfair trials for reputed homosexual conduct, Saudi Arabia has shown its contempt for the basic rights to privacy, fair trials and freedom from torture.
The ICJ urges the government and the judiciary of Kenya to implement a package of 42 recommendations to firmly establish the independence of the judiciary and to overcome the legacy of executive dominance over it.
The ICJ and other human rights groups today called on the international community to stand firm in its response to the human rights crisis in Nepal at the Commission on Human Rights.
Esta segunda edición actualizada de la Guía para Profesionales Nº1 brinda una explicación práctica de la aplicación de los principios internacionales sobre la independencia y responsabilidad de jueces, abogados y fiscales.
A través de un análisis de la jurisprudencia y los estándares relevantes, la Guía para Profesionales se constituye en una herramienta de ayuda a los funcionarios nacionales en el desarrollo de políticas relativas a la administración de justicia, la evaluación del sistema judicial de un país en concreto y la formulación de recomendaciones concretas para poner en práctica los estándares internacionales.
La Guía presenta, asimismo, el texto de todas las normas internacionales relativas al tema, y actualiza la recopilación publicada por la CIJ en 1990.
International Principles on the Independence and Accountability of Judges, Lawyers and Procecutors (No.1)-Practitioners’ Guide series-2009-spa (full text in Spanish, PDF)
Universal-PG N°1 Portugues-Publications-Practitioners’ Guide series-2017-POR (full text in Portuguese, new cover, PDF)
International Principles on the Independence and Accountability of Judges, Lawyers and Procecutors (No.1)-Practitioners’ Guide series-2009-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Uzbekistan: ICJ and the Academy of Justice open the third cycle of the International Human Rights Law Course
EU: Children with disabilities have the right to participate in legal proceedings
Pakistan – Dismantling Justice: A Full-Frontal Assault on the Rule of Law
Egypt: New Criminal Procedure Code violates human rights