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Jamaica: Inter-American Commission Reports Human Rights Concerns, Recommends Policy Changes

January 16, 2013 IJRC crime & impunity, due process & judicial protection, Inter-American System, LGBTI rights

Last week, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published a report on the human rights situation in Jamaica. IACHR, Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Jamaica (2012). The report is the first of the IACHR’s country reports to focus on Jamaica, and is a result of monitoring activities carried out in recent years, including a country visit in 2008,

UK Exercises Universal Jurisdiction to Prosecute Nepalese Colonel for Torture

January 9, 2013 IJRC domestic courts, international human rights, torture, universal jurisdiction

On Thursday, January 3, 2013, British Metropolitan Police arrested Colonel Kumar Lama, a former Nepalese army officer, during a visit with his wife and children at their home in East Sussex, England. [BBC] Col. Lama was charged with two counts of torture allegedly committed in 2005 during Nepal’s civil war and faces trial in Britain. Charges and Basis of British

IJRC in the News

IJRC’s work is a resource for advocates, scholars, journalists, and students around the world, and many, many legal research guides, civil society organization websites, and blogs link to our Online Resource Hub materials. The articles and videos listed below provide a partial sampling of articles in local and international news media that feature or refer to IJRC’s work. Washington

UN Human Rights Committee: "Homosexual Propaganda" Conviction Violated Freedom of Expression

December 3, 2012 IJRC discrimination, international human rights, LGBTI rights, UN treaty bodies

On November 19th the UN Human Rights Committee issued its decision in Irina Fedotova v. Russian Federation, Communication No. 1932/2010, a complaint involving a form of codified discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation that has become increasingly prevalent. The Human Rights Committee found that the applicant’s conviction under the Ryazan Law on Administrative Offenses (Ryazan Region Law) which prohibits “public

Syrian Opposition Coalition Formed as Human Rights Situation Continues to Deteriorate

November 16, 2012 IJRC crime & impunity, democracy & political rights, international human rights, international humanitarian law, military and humanitarian intervention, UN General Assembly, UN Human Rights Council, UN Security Council

On Sunday, November 11, Syrian opposition groups signed a draft agreement to form the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary Opposition Forces. [BBC] Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib, a former imam of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus who is considered a moderate and unifying force, was chosen to lead the new coalition. The Gulf Arab States have recognized the coalition as the sole legitimate

UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty Reports on Individual Access to Justice

November 12, 2012 IJRC crime & impunity, democracy & political rights, discrimination, due process & judicial protection, economic, social & cultural rights, international human rights, progressive development of law, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Universal system

On November 5, U.N. Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, presented her annual report to the U.N. General Assembly. The Special Rapporteur highlights the obstacles faced by individuals living in extreme poverty when they attempt to access courts and other remedies. Linking access to justice to numerous other human rights, her report concludes that States

Death Penalty & Human Rights: Comments of UN Special Rapporteurs

November 6, 2012 IJRC death penalty, international human rights, right to life, torture, UN General Assembly, UN Special Procedures, Universal system

Although a growing number of countries have abolished the death penalty, 50 of the 193 UN Member States continue to either impose the death penalty or legally allow for it, and thus the death penalty continues to be widely debated internationally. During their presentations to the UN General Assembly in October 2012, two UN Special Rapporteurs presented their findings on

Asylum & the Rights of Refugees

OVERVIEW States have been granting protection to individuals and groups fleeing persecution for centuries; however, the modern refugee regime is largely the product of the second half of the twentieth century. Like international human rights law, modern refugee law has its origins in the aftermath of World War II as well as the refugee crises of the interwar years

In El Haski v. Belgium, ECHR Finds Fair Trial Violation where 'Real Risk' that Evidence Was Obtained through Torture by Other States

September 28, 2012 IJRC European System, privacy, security & rule of law, torture

Last Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights held in El Haski v. Belgium, no. 649/08, Judgment of 25 September 2012, that Belgium should have excluded evidence where there was a real risk that the evidence had been obtained through torture or inhuman or degrading treatment. ECtHR, El Haski v. Belgium, no. 649/08, Judgment of 25 September 2012 (available in French only). The Court

The Status of Guantánamo and Extraordinary Rendition Litigation before Regional Tribunals

September 11, 2012 IJRC interim measures, international human rights, liberty & security of person, regional human rights protection, security & rule of law, torture, UN treaty bodies

On September 8, Adnan Latif became the ninth Guantánamo Bay detainee to die in U.S. custody. [NY Times] The military publicly announced Latif’s identity today, the eleventh anniversary of the tragic attacks of September 11, 2001. Those terrorist attacks gave rise to a more public, aggressive and extensive “war on terror” whose features have included the use of “black sites”