Today, the ICJ and other rights groups submitted an intervention to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, recalling the international human rights of non-citizens.
Racial discrimination remains a pervasive problem in criminal justice systems. While some countries are starting to recognize the deeply rooted nature of the phenomenon and to compile date in order to counter it, there is still little awareness for it in many countries.
Also, Government reports are often incomplete.
In order to give guidance to States on the issue, a General Recommendation by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is timely and useful.
This paper seeks to gather some ideas of recommendations from national reports, reports of the UN Special Rapporteurs and experts, NGO reports and other material. The recommendations are organized according to the different stages of the criminal justice system: police conduct, courts and prisons. It also gives some elements to be taken into account in more structural manner: access to justice, methods of structural, institutional change and data collection.
CERD Racial discrimination administration of justice-recommendations-eng (full text in English, PDF)
From August 14 to 16, 2003, the ICJ held a first ICCPR training seminar for lawyers in Kyrgyzstan.
The ICJ sent the following letter to the American President.
The ICJ views with concern the decision of the Australian Government to review its participation in the treaty bodies of the United Nations.
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