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A More Secure World. Our Shared Responsibility, Report of the HighLevel Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, UN Doc. A/59/565, 2 December 2004
In November 2003, Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed a 16-member panel of prominent politicians, diplomats and development experts to assess the threats then facing the international community, and to evaluate the UN's ability to address those challenges, and also recommend policy and institutional changes to deal with them. The report was presented, on 2 December 2004 to the Secretary-General, by the Chairman of the Panel, former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun of Thailand. The report contained 101 recommendations for dealing with the six areas identified by the Panel as being the greatest threats to worldwide [read more]
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The European Agenda on Security, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, Strasbourg, 28.04.2015, COM (2015)185 final highlighted in their Report
Adopted by the Commission through a Communication of 28 April 2015. It defines the main actions envisaged by the Commission to ensure an effective EU response to security threats over 2015-2020. The Agenda provides the strategic framework for the Commission’s work in the area of internal security. It sets out the main pillars for action in the area of security, where the EU can bring added-value: information exchange between national law enforcement authorities and EU Agencies; operational cooperation; supporting actions such as training and co-funding [read more]
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - Independent Expert to update the Set of Principles for the protection and the promotion of human rights through action to combat impunity
Report of Diane Orentlicher, independent expert to update the Set of principles to combat impunity - Updated Set of principles for the protection and promotion of human rights through action to combat impunity. The Special Procedures of the Commission on Human Rights are thematic and country-related. Independent Expert is one of the titles used for these procedures. The present one was established by the Commission in 2004. The Independent Expert was appointed in 2004 for the period of one year to update the principles.
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The EU’s Policy Framework on support to transitional justice
This document forms part of the implementation of the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy –2015 - 2019, which outlines in action 22 (b) the commitment to develop and implement an EU policy on Transitional Justice. The objective is to provide a framework for EU support to transitional justice mechanisms and processes and enhance the EU’s ability to play a more active and consistent role, both in our engagement with partner countries and with international and regional organisations. This framework sets out how the EU can engage in situations where past violations and abuses, including gross violations and abuses of human rights and serious violations of international humanitarian law have occurred, through supporting a context-specific combination [read more]
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CASE OF SEJDIĆ AND FINCI v. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - The European Court of Human Rights
The case originated in two applications (nos. 27996/06 and 34836/06) against Bosnia and Herzegovina lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by two citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr Dervo Sejdić and Mr Jakob Finci (“the applicants”), on 3 July and 18 August 2006 respectively. The applicants complained of their ineligibility to stand for election to the House of Peoples and the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the ground of their Roma and Jewish origin. They relied on Articles 3, 13 and 14 of the Convention, Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 and Article 1 of Protocol No. 12.
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Brems, Eva. "Transitional justice in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights"
International Journal of Transitional Justice 5.2 (2011): 282-303
International human rights law provides minimum requirements for government behavior in all spheres of policy, including a government’s efforts to deal with the legacy of a previous regime and/or a violent conflict. To some extent, the creation of supranational human rights protection mechanisms after World War II in itself can be considered a transitional justice effort. This is particularly the case in Europe, where the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) was adopted in 1951, only a few years after the end of the war. Since its adoption, ECHR case law related to transitional justice has included hundreds of judgments and decisions dealing with a wide range of issues, mainly compensation and restitution, but also prosecution, lustration, memory and truth. [read more]
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