Jun 19, 2013
This side event was held recently at the UN Human Rights Council. If you missed it, you can read the summary report and/or watch it here. Listen also to interviews of human rights defenders from Ecuador and Uganda.
UNSideEvent-Corporate complicity-conference report-2013 (full text in pdf)
Watch the side event:
Listen to the interview in Spanish with Humberto Piaguaje Lucitante (Ecuador)
Listen to the interview in Spanish with Pablo Fajardo Mendoza (Ecuador)
Listen to the interview with Peter Kayiira (Uganda)
Jun 19, 2013 | Адвокаси, Краткий анализ
МКЮ публикует настоящий краткий анализ международных стандартов, касающихся оснований и порядка привлечения к дисциплинарной ответственности адвокатов в странах СНГ.
Анализ публикуется в ответ на практику лишения или приостановления адвокатского статуса на основе ненадлежащих оснований в странах СНГ.
В анализе изложены международные стандарты, касающиеся роли юристов; гарантии функционирования юридической профессии; а также принципы, регулирующие дисциплинарное производство.
Данные стандарты укрепляют независимость юридической профессии и отдельно взятых адвокатов; они направлены на обеспечение возможности адвокатов содействовать справедливому отправлению правосудия в соответствии с принципом верховенства права.
Рекомендации, предлагаемые в конце документа, основываются на правовом анализе. Они призваны быть руководством для национальных ассоциаций адвокатов и компетентных государственных органов.
CIS-icj opinion lawyers discipline law-advocacy-analysis brief-2013-rus (PDF, полный текст на русском)
CIS-icj opinion lawyers discipline law-advocacy-analysis brief-2013-eng (PDF, полный текст на английском)
Jun 19, 2013 | Multimedia items, News, Video clips
Okay Machisa is the National Director of Zimrights, one of Zimbabwe’s leading human rights organizations, supported by the ICJ. Listen to his video interview.
Jun 19, 2013
The ICJ issues this brief analysis of international standards regarding grounds and procedures for disciplinary action against lawyers in CIS countries.
It is published in response to a pattern of disbarment or suspension of lawyers on improper grounds, in CIS countries.
It outlines the international standards on the role of lawyers; guarantees for the functioning of lawyers; and the principles governing disciplinary action.
These standards reinforce the independence of the legal profession and of individual lawyers; they aim to ensure that lawyers can contribute to the fair administration of justice under the rule of law.
The recommendations, at the end of the document, are based on the legal analysis. They aim to provide guidance for national bar associations and the relevant state bodies.
CIS-icj opinion lawyers discipline law-advocacy-analysis brief-2013-eng (full text in pdf)
CIS-icj opinion lawyers discipline law-advocacy-analysis brief-2013-rus (full text in pdf)
Jun 13, 2013
The ICJ has submitted an alternative report to the Human Rights Committee on Tajikistan’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
The report focuses on questions arising under Articles 7, 9 and 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) concerning the weak framework of protection against torture and other ill-treatment for those apprehended and detainees; the practices of arbitrary arrest and detention; and the inadequate protection of the right to a fair trial.
The ICJ raises various concerns about the criminal justice system, including the use of pre-trial detention in the majority of cases as the sole measure of restraint, and the use of torture and ill-treatment to extract “confessions”. The ICJ also addresses the lack of equality of arms in the criminal process; and impediments to lawyers in the exercise of their professional duties.
Tajikistan-HRCttee108-ICJ-AlternativeReport-LegalSubmission-2013 (download full alternative report by the ICJ)
