Feb 20, 2011
Report of mission to to monitor the hearings of the trial of Haytham Al-Maleh, prominent Syrian human rights lawyer. The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders – a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) carried out six missions1 to Damascus between February and July 2010 to monitor the hearings of the trial of Haytham Al-Maleh, an 80-year-old prominent Syrian human rights lawyer and former President of the Human Rights Association in Syria (HRAS). Haytham Al-Maleh was unlawfully arrested by officers of the General Intelligence Service on 14 October 2009 and prosecuted before the Second Military Court of Damascus on the grounds of “transferring false and exaggerated news that weaken national sentiments,” “spreading false or exaggerated information abroad which undermines the prestige of the State,” and “slandering the judicial system.”
Nov 23, 2010
“There is a need for a systemic programme of judicial reform in the Russian Federation,” the ICJ said today, as it released the final report of a research mission in this country.
The Report, The State of the Judiciary in Russia, called for a programme of reform to be led by an expert, independent body, with the meaningful involvement of civil society.
Russia-indepjudiciary-news-2010 (full text, PDF)
Russia-indepjudiciary-news-2010-rus (full text in Russian, PDF)
Russia-indepjudiciary-report-2010 (full text, PDF)
Russia-indepjudiciary-report-2010-rus (full text in Russian, PDF)
Jun 24, 2010
In July 2009, Muhannad Al-Hasani, a Syrian lawyer, human rights defender and ICJ Commissioner, was arrested in Damascus by officers of the Syrian General Intelligence Service.
Syria-trial Al-Hasani-trial observation report-2010 (full text in English, PDF)
Apr 4, 2010
This briefing paper was prepared by the ICJ at the request of the European Parliament’s Sub-Committee on Human Rights.
Three years after the European Parliament’s Resolution on the transfer and illegal detention of prisoners, the paper assesses progress on the key external policy issues raised and recommendations made by the 2007 Resolution
Counter terrorism-thematic report-2010 (full text, PDF)
Apr 1, 2010
This is the fourth edition of references to sexual orientation and gender identity within the United Nations human rights system.
It is a comprehensive collection of jurisprudence, general comments, concluding observations, and reports from human rights treaty bodies and independent experts (also known as Special Procedures) of the UN Charter-based system.
In addition, it includes:
- speeches and press releases from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights;
- the Joint Statement on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, signed by 66 States and presented to the General Assembly in December 2008; and
- excerpts from the UNHCR Guidance Note on Refugee Claims Relating to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
This UN compilation covers the time period January 2007 through March 2010.
sexual orientation gender identity law UN human rights system-publication-2010
