Jan 21, 2014 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions, Position papers
The ICJ submitted today its contribution to the public consultation of the European Commission on the future of home affairs policies in the European Union.
In its contribution, the ICJ highlighted the need to increase human rights protection in EU home affairs legislation and in its implementation.
The ICJ submission recommends an increased monitoring of the human rights compliance of draft legislation; calls for increased transparency in the legislative process; and for a better use of infringement proceedings by the European Commission to ensure the effective implementation of EU home affairs legislation with particular attention to the protection of human rights.
The ICJ addressed, in its contribution, the importance of a correct and human rights compliant implementation of the new Common European Asylum System, and the need of further reforms in the EU legislation on asylum, migration and border control.
Finally, the ICJ stressed the poor record of the EU institutions, besides the European Parliament, in ensuring accountability for human rights violations committed in countering terrorism, for example in the cases of the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programme scandal and in the cases of alleged complicity of European States in the US-led system of renditions and secret detentions.
EU-PublicConsultation-ICJ-FutureHomeAffairs-2014-Final (download the contribution)
Jan 20, 2014
The ICJ has submitted to the Committee on the Rights of the Child an alternative report in advance of the Committee’s examination of the fourth and fifth periodic reports of the Russian Federation under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The ICJ submission draws the Committee’s attention to concerns related to:
- The detrimental impact of extractive and mining companies’ activities on children’s rights;
- The detrimental impact of asbestos production on children’s rights;
- The impact on children’s rights of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The Committee will examine the fourth and fifth periodic reports of the Russian Federation during its 65th session held in January 2014, following which it will adopt Concluding Observations setting out recommendations to the Government of the Russian Federation.
RussianFederation-CRC65-AlternativeReport-LegalSubmission-2014 (download full submission in PDF)
Jan 18, 2014 | Адвокаси, Юридические заявления
МКЮ подала заявку в Комитет по ликвидации всех форм дискриминации в отношении женщин (CEDAW) до рассмотрения объединенного третьего и четвертого периодических докладов Казахстана в соответствии со статьей 18 одноименной Конвенции.
В представлении МКЮ обращается внимание Комитета на проблемы, связанные с насилием и дискриминацией по признаку пола.
Он также включает в себя ряд широко сформулированных рекомендаций, призывающих власти в Казахстане решить эти проблемы и вступить в силу обязательства государства-участника по Конвенции.
Комитет рассмотрит объединенные третий и четвертый периодические доклады Казахстана на своей 57-й сессии в феврале 2014 года, после чего он примет заключительные замечания с изложением рекомендаций правительству Казахстана.
Kazakhstan-ICJ Submission to CEDAW-advocacy-legal submission-2014 (скачайте документ на английском, PDF)
Jan 10, 2014
The ICJ has submitted to the Committee on the Rights of the Child an alternative report in advance of the Committee’s examination of the third and fourth periodic reports of Germany under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The ICJ submission draws the Committee’s attention to concerns related to:
- The pandemic influenza (H1N1) vaccine;
- The coal industry and its impact on children’s health; and
- Violation of children’s rights and German companies’ supply chains and purchase of raw materials.
The Committee will examine the third and fourth periodic reports of Germany during its 65th session held in January 2014, following which it will adopt Concluding Observations setting out recommendations to the Government of Germany.
Germany-CRC65-AlternativeReport-LegalSubmission-2014 (download full submission in PDF)
Dec 20, 2013
The ICJ has provided a submission to the UN Human Rights Committee (the Committee) for its consideration during the adoption of a list of issues for the examination of the Second and Third Periodic Reports of Malta under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
During its 110th session, from 10 to 28 March 2014, the Committee will prepare and adopt a List of Issues on Malta. These issues will be put to the Government of Malta for formal response ahead of the Committee’s full examination of Malta’s Second and Third Periodic Reports during the Committee’s 112th session, from 13 to 31 October 2014.
The ICJ’s submission raises matters and suggests concrete questions to be put to the Government of Malta concerning the following issues:
- the continuing necessity of Malta’s reservations to the Covenant;
- the compliance of Malta’s immigration laws, policies and practice with the State’s obligations under articles 6, 7, 9, 10 and 13;
- laws criminalizing abortion in the light of the State party’s obligations under articles articles 2, 3, 6, 7 and 26; and
- the enjoyment of Covenant rights in connection with sexual orientation and gender identity.
Malta-CCPR-ListOfIssues-LegalSubmission-2013 (download the submission)
Photo credit: © Jakob Breivik Grimstveit (the author of the picture has no involvement in nor does support this submission)
