SOGI UN source Archives: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, A/HRC/30/36, 10 July 2015
II. Activities of the Working Group in 2014 E. Prevention of imminent arbitrary deprivation of liberty 54. However, a preventive mechanism might be applicable in situations where an individual is to be arrested solely because he or she has exercised the fundamental rights or freedoms guaranteed by international human rights law. Similarly, it could apply […]
Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, United Nations Basic Principles and Guidelines on Remedies and Procedures on the Right of Anyone Deprived of Their Liberty to Bring Proceedings Before a Court, A/HRC/30/37, 6 July 2015
8. In the present Basic Principles and Guidelines, the terms “everyone”, “anyone” or “any person” denote every human being without discrimination based on race, colour, sex, property, birth, age, national, ethnic or social origin, language, religion, economic condition, political or other opinion, sexual orientation or gender identity, disability or other status, and any ground that […]
Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, A/HRC/30/36/Add.2, 6 July 2015: New Zealand
IV. Findings A. Positive aspects 38. The Government permits visits to prisons by independent human rights observers. Independent visits to places of detention are not subject to administrative discretion but rather are guaranteed by law. Transgender inmates can serve their sentences in a prison for their identified gender. The Government is trying to reduce the […]
Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, A/HRC/27/48, 30 June 2014
II. Activities of the Working Group in 2013 D. Prevention of imminent arbitrary deprivation of liberty 62. Under the Working Group’s current methods of work, there is no mechanism addressing situations where there is sufficiently reliable information that the execution of an order of arrest will result in arbitrary depravation of liberty. In effect, the […]
Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, A/HRC/22/44, 24 December 2012
II. ACTIVITIES OF THE WORKING GROUP 2012 B. Country visits 2. Follow-up to country visits of the Working Group Malta 35. The Government provided information on various cases in which the Ombudsman effectively assisted in the protection of various rights, including the rights of rejected immigrants to marry and have a family; the right to […]
Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Addendum: Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention*, A/HRC/16/47/Add.1, 2 March 2011
Opinion No. 25/2009 (Egypt): Communication addressed to the Government on 18 May 2009 Concerning: The source has specifically requested that the names of the 10 individuals concerned not be published; the Government was fully informed of their identities. 6. The ten persons were arrested on 2 January 2009 for allegedly engaging in consensual sexual relations […]