This review represents the first chance for the Human Rights Council to take stock of US counter-terrorism laws, policies and practices since the new US administration took office in 2009.
The ICJ urges the Human Rights Council to seize this opportunity to define clear benchmarks for the protection of human rights in the fight against terrorism.
USA-legal submission-2010 (full text, PDF)
=The Supreme Court of the Philippines granted Ang Ladlad’s petition for accreditation to join the upcoming May elections. The ICJ had submitted an amicus curiae in this case.
The court overturned the decision of the Commission on Elections which had denied Ang Ladlad accreditation based on public morality and religion.
Philippines-Ang Ladlad Party-legal submission-2010 (full text in English, PDF)
The Legal Opinion addresses the international obligation on Bangladesh to ensure that no one within its jurisdiction be subject to torture,cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
The opinion is provided for use by the petitioners in the matter before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh (High Court Division) concerning the imposition in Bangladesh, by order of traditional village tribunals, of extra-legal penalties amounting to beating and whipping.
Bangladesh-infliction of extra-legal penalties involving corporal punishment-legal submission-2010 (full text, PDF)
The ICJ, and Amnesty International submitted comments on the first draft of the Council of Europe Guidelines on Impunity.
The IACtHR issued its seminal decision in Gonzalez et al v. Mexico: the State has failed to discharge its international obligation to exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate and prosecute disappearances and deaths of several women in Ciudad Juarez.
The ICJ submitted an Amicus brief.
Mexico-Amicus IACtHR Campo Algodonero-legal submission-2009
For a copy of the Court judgment click here
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