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ICJ submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Guatemala

ICJ submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Guatemala

Apr 11, 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 Guatemala during its 14th session.

In a submission to the Working Group, the International Commission of Jurists has focused on the discrete issues of:

  1. lack of independence of the judiciary;
  2. impunity for gross human rights violations committed during the armed conflict;
  3. lack of access to justice for indigenous people and impunity for human rights violations against them;
  4. abolition of the death penalty; and
  5. Guatemala’s party status to international human rights instruments and its cooperation with the UN treaty bodies and the Council’s Special Procedures.

Guatemala-ICJ submission UPR-non-judicial submission-2012 (full text in English, PDF)

Guatemala-Comparison second cycle-advocacy-2012 (full text in English, PDF)

Report on the ICJ mission to Pakistan in autumn 2011

Report on the ICJ mission to Pakistan in autumn 2011

Apr 2, 2012

AsiaPacificThis ICJ Pakistan Mission Report reflects the findings of a short mission undertaken by the organization in the autumn of 2011.

The visit followed up on the work of a mission on the independence of the judiciary and the Lawyers’ Movement undertaken by the ICJ in 2007. The mandate of the 2011 mission was to assess the situation and make recommendations in accordance with international principles and standards on some aspects of the issue of the independence of the judiciary and the separation of powers.

Pakistan-ICJ mission-fact-finding mission report-2012 (full text in English, PDF)

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