On the eve of a major legal challenge in the House of Lords, JUSTICE and the ICJ call for the Law Lords to rule against the government’s 9/11 law permitting the indefinite detention of suspected terrorists.
Today, 150 international lawyers from around the world adopted a Declaration on Upholding Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Combating Terrorism.
The Declaration, adopted at the close of the ICJ’s biennal conference, highlights the grave challenge to the rule of law brought about by recent excessive counter-terrorism measures and many old counter-terrorism laws that have been a problem for decades.
The ICJ will conduct its Biennial Conference on the theme “Counter terrorism and Human Rights – Challenges and Responses” on the 27th – 29th August in Berlin, Germany.
Global efforts to protect individuals from torture were dealt a blow this week by the UK Court of Appeal.
Today, the ICJ presented an oral statement to the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection on Human Rights.
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