Apr 19, 2012
In this submission, the ICJ highlights the failure of the Syrian authorities to comply with the Committee’s previous recommendations.
By letter of 23 November 2011 to the Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic to UNOG, the Committee against Torture requested Syria to present a special report, prompted by by the Committee’s deep “concern at numerous, consistent and substantiated reports and information, from various reliable sources, about the widespread violations of the provisions of the Convention by the authorities of the Syrian Arab Republic since the adoption of the Committee’s Concluding Observations on the State Party’s initial report to the Committee (CAT/C/SYR/CO/1), in May 2010”.
In response to this special reporting procedure, the ICJ is highlighting the Syrian authorities failures to: incorporate into Syrian domestic legislation the crime of torture as defined in the Convention; reform the Syrian legal framework in accordance with international human rights standards; investigate thoroughly all cases of torture and ill-treatment committed in Syrian prisons and detention facilities; and address the pressing issue of impunity for acts of torture and other serious human rights violations in Syria.
Syrian Arab Republic-Special report Torture- non-legal submission-2012 (full text in English, PDF)
Apr 19, 2012 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
Under the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, the UN Human Rights Council Working Group on the UPR will be undertaking a review of Pakistan during its 14th session.
In a submission to the Working Group, the ICJ has focused on the discrete issues of:
- independence of the judiciary;
- business and human rights, concerning safety and security for miners;
- protection of the rights of the child; and
- Pakistan’s party status to international human rights instruments and its cooperation with the UN treaty bodies and the Council’s Special Procedures.
Pakistan-UPR14-StakeholderSubmission-legal submission (2012) (download in PDF)
Pakistan-Comparison-FirstAndSecondCycle-advocacy-2012 (full text in English, PDF)
Apr 18, 2012 | News
The ICJ today called upon the Tunisian authorities to take immediate steps to ensure the rights of victims of human rights violations to effective remedies and to reparation.
Apr 17, 2012
The ICJ presented a third party intervention in the case of Kudeshkina v. the Russian Federation before the European Court of Human Rights.
The third party intervention focuses on issues of jurisdiction of the Court, on the right to reparation, and on freedom of expression and the judiciary.
Russian Federation-Written submission-legal submission-2012 (full text in English, PDF)
Apr 17, 2012
The ICJ presented a case-law note as a contribution to the ongoing negotiations on the recast of the Dublin Regulation.
The submission outlines relevant international human rights case-law on the right to information and personal interview, guarantees for children and unaccompanied miinors, detention, the right to a remedy and the definition of family.
EU-briefing Dublin Regulation-analysis brief-2012 (full text in English, PDF)
