File 11 - The International Commission of Jurists, 2008

576pp

Material in this file consists of correspondence (letter and printed email), background papers, itineraries, reports and other research material, press articles and press releases relating to the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Eminent Jurists Panel (EJP) on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights. It includes cover letter from William J Butler (WJB), President, American Association for The ICJ (AAICJ) and December 2007 report of AAICJ for ICJ's Distinguished Jurists Panel [EJP?] "The Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Habeas Corpus Jurisdiction - Did the Congress Violate the Suspension Clause of the US Constitution Limiting Its Suspension Authority To Cases Of Rebellion and Invasion?", 08/01/2008; reprint of article "Standards and Procedures for Classifying 'Enemy Combatants': Congress, What Have You Done?", by Kristine A Huskey, Clinical Professor of Law and Director National Security and Human Rights Clinic, University of Texas, School of Law, in Texas International Law Journal, with cover letter from Huskey, 08/01/2008; press releases relating to 6th Special Session of the Human Rights Council where they demanded Israel lift siege on Gaza, 28/01/2008, to ICJ warning Zimbabwe against interfering with independence of legal profession there, 12/03/2008, to decision of the International Criminal Court Prosecutor to present case for pre-trial against President of Sudan, Omar Hassan Ahmad AL Bashir, for genocide and more, 15/07/2008, to ICJ welcoming nomination of South African Judge Ms Navanethem Pillay as the next UNHCH [United Nations high Commissioner of Human Rights], 25/07/2008, to ICJ calling on the Palestinian Authority to abolish Death Penalty, 25/07/2008, to ICJ condemning grenade attack against prominent Sri Lankan Human Rights lawyer, JC Weliamuna, 29/09/2008 and to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 10/12/2008; correspondence, list of participants, draft remarks with notation, press release, discussion paper on ICJ Strategic Directions for 2010-2016, itinerary, agenda, Annual report and Audited Financial statement, 2007, and other material relating to the ICJ World Congress in Geneva, December 2008, 18/02-02/12/2008; diagram of structure of Research and Right to Development Division of OHCHR [Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights], 13/03/2008; email to Mary Robinson (MR) from Howen relating to his diagnosis with bone cancer, and to steps required for MR to take over from Arthur [Chaskalson] as President of the ICJ, beginning in 2009, 31/03/2008; email from Sally Armstrong to MR in relation to Louise Arbour stepping down as UNHCHR, the suggestion that Dr Sima Samar might be good replacement and requesting MR send letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in support if she agreed, 30/04/2008; draft report and chapters "Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century: The Nature of the Threat", "Criminal justice chapter - the criminalization of terrorism" and "Criminal Justice - part two", from Richard [?] sent to EJP members, 08/06/2008; letter from Wilder Tayler, Acting Secretary General, ICJ and biographical information relating to election and re-election of Commissioners to the ICJ, 31/07/2008; text of speech given by ICJ's Honorary Chairman, The Rt. Hon. Malcolm Fraser, at a seminar at The Human Rights Law Resource Centre, Melbourne, Australia, entitled "'Torture Team': human rights, Lawyers, Interrogations and the 'War on Terror'", 19/08/2008; handwritten notes; correspondence and questionnaire on future directions of ICJ for discussion at ICJ's congress in December, 01/09/2008; ICJ Expert Legal Panel report on Corporate Complicity in International Crimes, 12/09/2008 and press release 16/09/2008; material relating to the EJP Plenary meeting, 27-30/09/2008 in Geneva including agenda 18/09/2008, draft chapters on preventive mechanisms for the EJP report and correspondence on whether an editor had been found, 26/05/2008 and previous plenary report and updates, 13/02/2008; email relating to planned launch of EJP report in February 2009, 30/10/2008; print out of report "Terrorising the Media", Council of Europe, which covers impact of counter-terrorism legislation in Europe on freedom of the media and speech, 11/11/2008; Human Rights First report on "How to End Torture and Cruel Treatment" recommendations for new administration at Guantánamo, sent to MR by Mike Posner, 13/11/2008; ICJ declaration and plan of action on upholding the rule of law and the role of judges and lawyers in times of crises, 12/2008; request for assistance in Japanese Freedom of Expression case from Gerd Leipold, Greenpeace, which MR forwarded on to Wilder Taylor, ICJ Acting Secretary General, 04/12/2008; draft chapters and notes for the EJP report, December 2008,

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