Jan 23, 2009 | News
The ICJ applauds the signing of four executive orders by President Barack Obama aimed to reverse some of the most abusive policies and practices instituted by the previous administration in its “war on terror”.
“The new administration has taken as among its first order of business a process of restoring the rule of law to its counter-terrorism programs”, said Wilder Tayler, Acting ICJ Secretary General. “These steps should initiate a full repeal or revision of the laws, policies and practices that had such a corrosive effect on human rights and the rule of law both domestically and globally. It should also encourage other States to help bring arbitrary detention at Guantanamo to an end, including by accepting detainees for resettlement.”
United States-ICJ welcomes first steps to restore human rights in countering terrorism-web story-2009 (full text, PDF)
Jan 20, 2009 | News
The ICJ today expressed its grave concern at the murder in Moscow yesterday of prominent human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and called for a thorough, prompt and independent criminal investigation.
Russian Federation-ICJ calls for investigation and accountability-Press releases-2009 (full text, PDF)
Jan 15, 2009 | News
La CIJ anunció hoy que emprenderá una misión de observación de la elección, por parte del Congreso de la República, de los magistrados que integrarán la Corte Suprema de Justicia.
Jan 15, 2009 | Artículos, Noticias
La CIJ anunció hoy que emprenderá una misión de observación de la elección, por parte del Congreso de la República, de los magistrados que integrarán la Corte Suprema de Justicia.
Dicha misión se enmarca dentro del proceso de acompañamiento que la CIJ comenzó en septiembre y que incluyó dos visitas al país. La misión se desarrollará entre los días 21 y 25 de enero y tendrá como objetivo observar el respeto de los estándares internacionales relativos a la administración de justicia, que requieren el nombramiento de magistrados independientes e imparciales.
Durante la visita, se llevarán a cabo reuniones con los distintos actores involucrados en el proceso, principalmente la Junta Nominadora y el Congreso, responsable último de los nombramientos. La misión estará integrada por Ramón Cadena, Director de la Oficina en Centroamérica de la CIJ, José Zeitune, Consejero Jurídico para Latinoamérica de la CIJ, y Katya Salazar, Directora de Programas de la Fundación para el Debido Proceso Legal (DPLF por sus siglas en inglés).
La misión se enmarca dentro de las distintas actividades de observación del proceso de nombramiento que la CIJ ha implementado desde el inicio del mismo. A tal fin, se emprendieron dos misiones de alto nivel con expertos internacionales y se realizaron distintos pronunciamientos, disponibles en el sitio web de la CIJ.
Jan 13, 2009
A new ICJ report assesses that the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Body System has developed empirically, without clear vision of the intended role for the system as a whole.
As a result, individual treaty bodies exercise often different and distinct functions and do not operate through the uniform working methods. Only incremental reform initiatives have been possible so far, including the one of harmonizing the reporting guidelines for the common core document and focused periodic reports.
With the increase in number of States parties and reporting burden, establishment of the ninth treaty body and continual differences in function and operation of individual committees, the system reaches its limits both in terms of serviceability and effectiveness. The systematic reform has yet to take place to establish holistic and integral treaty body system.
Central is the question how to ensure equal implementation and standardized monitoring of all human rights obligations.
The ICJ suggests some of the key functions for the future treaty body system to become more effective, visible and accessible.
One of the essentials is to increase the treaty body system’s capacity to deal with urgent country situations, including through the system of early-warning and urgent action procedures and a set of targeted country visits.
Reform of the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Body System-Thematic reports-2008 (full text, PDF)
