The ICJ provides its views to the Committee against Torture for the consideration of the 6th Periodic Report of Switzerland.
In this submission, the ICJ highlights several issues which it considers should be of particular concern to the Committee in its consideration of the report of Switzerland.
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.
EU: Further efforts needed for child-friendly justice in criminal proceedings
Three Years After the EU-Tunisia Deal, Review EU Approach Toward Tunisia’s Human Rights Decline
EU: Civil society´s demands for a stronger Rule of law report
Tunisia: End sham prosecution of Truth Commission’s former president Sihem Bensedrine