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News Clips – October 11, 2011

October 11, 2011 IJRC civil society, democracy & political rights, domestic courts, due process & judicial protection, regional human rights protection, thought, expression & association

In the wake of the killing of Al-Qaida militant and U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki in late September by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, many have questioned the Obama Administration’s legal justification for killing U.S. citizens and others outside combat zones, as discussed by IJRC Board member Jamil Dakwar in “State Sanctioned Killings”, published in the ezine Jadaliyya last Friday.

Civil Society Describes Human Rights Concerns in Syria, Venezuela, 14 Other States, in Lead Up to October Universal Periodic Review

August 13, 2011 IJRC civil society, Universal Periodic Review

Sixteen United Nations Member States face the Universal Periodic Review of their human rights records in October of this year, among them Syria, Zimbabwe, East Timor, Uganda and Venezuela. Other countries to go before the UPR in October are: Tajikistan, Tanzania, Antigua and Barbuda, Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand, Togo, Iceland, Lithuania, and Moldova. Some States’ national reports are already

Released Egyptian Political Prisoner Urges African Commission to Ensure Accountability for and Non-Repetition of Mubarak Era Abuses

August 13, 2011 IJRC African System, democracy & political rights, due process & judicial protection, liberty & security of person

The Open Society Justice Initiative and Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights have announced a development in their complaint on behalf of Egyptian political prisoner Mohammed Abderrahim El-Sharkawi. [OSJI] The two organizations recently filed written arguments on admissibility before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, which received the complaint in late 2010. [OSJI] El-Sharkawi reportedly spent nearly 16 years in

Overview of the Human Rights Framework

WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS? Every human being is entitled to protection of, and respect for, their fundamental rights and freedoms. Human rights are those activities, conditions, and privileges that all human beings deserve to enjoy, by virtue of their humanity. They include civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. Human rights are inherent, inalienable, interdependent, and indivisible. This means we

Judge Garzón Challenges Prosecution for Investigation of Franco-Era Abuses

March 27, 2011 IJRC domestic courts, due process & judicial protection, European System, UN Special Procedures, universal jurisdiction

London-based human rights organization The International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights (INTERIGHTS) has filed an application with the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón against the Spanish government, challenging Judge Garzón’s criminal prosecution for malfeasance, initiated by private groups in response to his judicial investigation of crimes committed under the Franco dictatorship. [INTERIGHTS;

IACHR Takes Dominican Republic to the Inter-American Court in Guayabín Massacre Case

February 20, 2011 IJRC crime & impunity, discrimination, due process & judicial protection, Inter-American System, liberty & security of person, massacres

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights announced last week that it has filed an application with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of Nadege Dorzema et al. v. Dominican Republic (Case No. 12.688). The case centers around the June 17, 2000 deaths and detention of a group of Haitians and one Dominican citizen at the hands of

News Clips – October 25, 2010

October 25, 2010 IJRC African System, civil litigation, crime & impunity, democracy & political rights, discrimination, domestic courts, European System, ICTR, immigration & asylum, Inter-American System, interim measures, International Criminal Court, labor rights, liberty & security of person, regional human rights protection, right to life, security & rule of law, thought, expression & association, torture, U.S. courts, UN Special Procedures, Uncategorized

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights begins holding hearings today in its 140th Period of Sessions. Issues to be discussed today include the Situation of Environmentalists in Mesoamerica, and Discrimination against the Transsexual, Transgender, and Transvestite Population in Brazil. See the week’s schedule of hearings here. Webcast of some hearings is available here. The role of humanitarian aid in contributing

News Clips – September 20, 2010

September 20, 2010 IJRC ATCA litigation, crime & impunity, discrimination, due process & judicial protection, environmental rights, immigration & asylum, Inter-American System, massacres, security & rule of law, thought, expression & association, U.S. courts, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Special Procedures

In a heartbreaking blow to Afghan hopes for peace, several U.S. soldiers are under investigation for murdering at least three Afghan civilians last year as part of a rogue “kill team” that was allegedly formed when a staff sergeant who had served in Iraq in 2004 joined the platoon stationed in Kandahar province. [Washington Post] The French Senate has approved

IACHR Submits Cases Involving Disappearance and Indigenous Land Rights to Inter-American Court

May 5, 2010 IJRC due process & judicial protection, enforced disappearance, environmental rights, indigenous communities, Inter-American System, property

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights announced today that it will litigate two cases before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (against Argentina and Ecuador), while the press and civil society reported that a third case against the Dominican Republic will also be heard by the court. The IACHR press release states: On April 18, 2010, the IACHR filed an