SOGI UN keywords Archives: Access to justice
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, E/CN.4/2005/60/Add.3, February 22, 2005, Mission to Brazil
A. Discrimination against or further victimization of social groups within the judicial system 24. Lack of access to justice is more of a problem for social groups who suffer from discrimination or marginalization. The Special Rapporteur heard many accounts of court cases involving people from these groups who claimed that the initial violation of their […]
Concluding Observations, CCPR/CO/82/POL, 4 November 2004: Poland
5. The Committee notes with satisfaction improvements made in the area of women’s rights, in particular by the appointment of a Government Plenipotentiary on the Equal Status of Women and Men. It also welcomes the extension of the Plenipotentiary’s competence to issues relating not only to discrimination on the basis of sex but also on […]
Concluding Observations, CCPR/CO/78/SLV, 30 July 2003: El Salvador
16. The Committee expresses concern at the incidents of people being attacked, or even killed, on account of their sexual orientation (art. 9), at the small number of investigations mounted into such illegal acts, and at the current provisions (such as the local “contravention orders”) used to discriminate against people on account of their sexual […]
Preliminary paper in implementation of Sub-Commission Resolution 2002/3, Administration of Justice, Rule of law and Democracy, Discrimination in the criminal justice system, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2003/3, June 26, 2003
Preliminary paper by Ms. Leïla Zerrougui, Special Rapporteur appointed to conduct a detailed study of discrimination in the criminal justice system in implementation of Sub-Commission Resolution 2002/3 16. Research carried out thus far shows that there is undeniably a racial dimension to discrimination in the criminal justice system. It is an established fact that it […]
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, E/CN.4/2003/65, January 10, 2003
The Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct (excerpts) Value 5: Equality Principle: Ensuring equality of treatment to all before the courts is essential to the due performance of the judicial office. Application: 5.1 A judge shall be aware of, and understand, diversity in society and differences arising from various sources, including but not limited to race, […]
Discrimination in the criminal justice system: E/CN.4/Sub.2/2002/5, May 23, 2002
final working paper prepared by Ms. Leïla Zerrougui 10. In other words, if a fresh study is undertaken on discrimination in the criminal justice system, it is bound to shed new light on the matter. This is firstly because it has now been established that institutionalized discrimination exists and persists in national criminal justice systems, […]