Tag: spain

SPAIN: Judges and the Rule of Law: the prosecution of Judge Garzon

16th Session - 2011 March, ALRC AT THE UN, documents, Human Rights Council, Spain, Written Submissions February 23, 2011July 17, 2015 ALRC 0 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, 2011 ALRC-CWS-16-16-2011 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Sixteenth session A Joint Statement by Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) and the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) SPAIN: Judges and the Rule of Law: the prosecution of Judge Garzon Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC)1 and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers call on the Human Rights Council to fulfill its duty to promote and protect the rule of law and fundamental rights and freedoms in Spain and around the world by recommending and monitoring:2 1. Guarantees of absolute immunity for judges from criminal […]

SPAIN: Independence of the Judiciary

14th Session - 2010 June, ALRC AT THE UN, Countries, documents, Human Rights Council, Oral Statements, Spain June 3, 2010August 24, 2015 ALRC 0 Comments

Date: 3 June, 2010 Document id: ALRC-COS-14-010-2010 Speaker: Isabel Stramwasser HRC section: A Joint Oral Statement to the 14th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), and The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL). SPAIN: Independence of the Judiciary We call on the Human Rights Council to support judicial independence. And we call on Spain to demonstrate its commitment to human rights by taking immediate action to: 1. Ensure that no judge in Spain � including Judge Baltasar Garz�n � may be criminally charged or otherwise punished for exercising the judicial jurisdiction to interpret and apply the law. […]

SPAIN: Statement on Behalf of Judge Baltasar Garz�n & Judicial Independence

14th Session - 2010 June, ALRC AT THE UN, Countries, documents, Human Rights Council, Spain, Written Submissions May 19, 2010August 24, 2015 ALRC 0 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 19, 2010 ALRC-CWS-14-02-2010 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Fourteenth session, Agenda Item Item 3, Interactive Dialogue A Joint Written Statement to the 14th Session of the Human Rights Council from Lawyers� Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) and the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) SPAIN: Statement on Behalf of Judge Baltasar Garz�n & Judicial Independence Restore Judge Baltasar Garz�n (Garz�n) to office1 LRWC and ALRC call on the Human Rights Council to call on Spain to: 1. Comply with its duty to investigate over 100,000 enforced disappearnaces (disappearances) and extra-judicial executions (executions) alledged to have occured during the Franco dictatorhip and the civil war. 2. Ensure that […]