A/HRC/29/26
7.
Between 1 March 2014 and 28 February 2015 inclusive, she sent a total of 117
communications alleging violations of human rights in the context of her mandate to 54
Member States. Of these communications, 86 were urgent appeals and the remaining 31
were letters of allegation. Details of the communications and responses from Governments
are included in the communications reports of special procedures (A/HRC/27/72,
A/HRC/28/85 and A/HRC/29/50).
B.
Other activities
8.
From 27 April to 1 May 2014, the Special Rapporteur attended the sixty-third
session of the General Assembly of the Latin American Federation of Judges and the
annual meeting of the Ibero-American Group of the International Association of Judges in
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she delivered a statement on the current
challenges to the independence of the judiciary and the importance of promoting capacitybuilding activities in international human rights law for judges.
9.
On 8 and 9 May 2014, she participated in an international symposium on justice and
the rule of law organized by the YükselKarkınKüçük Attorney Partnership in Istanbul,
Turkey, at which she delivered a speech on the various forms of interference, pressures and
attacks against the judiciary.
10.
On 11 June 2014, she participated as a panellist in a side event of the Human Rights
Council session entitled “Strengthening the rule of law in Venezuela”, organized by the
International Commission of Jurists and the International Bar Association’s Human Rights
Institute.
11.
On 13 June 2014, the Special Rapporteur presented her annual thematic report to the
Human Rights Council, which addressed judicial accountability (A/HRC/26/32) and the
report on her official visit to the Russian Federation (A/HRC/26/32/Add.1).
12.
On 18 June 2014, she participated in an event entitled “Independence of the
judiciary: international standards and practice”, organized by the Mission to Serbia of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Belgrade.
13.
On 15 July 2014, she attended a press conference on recent judicial law reforms in
Cambodia, organized by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute in
Phnom Penh.
14.
On 23 October 2014, she presented her annual thematic report to the Third
Committee of the General Assembly. The report highlighted the need to promote justice
and the rule of law in the post-2015 development agenda and called for explicit references
to access to and the administration of justice in the post-2015 sustainable development
goals and targets.
15.
From 29 October to 2 November 2014, she participated in the 58th Congress of the
International Association of Lawyers, in Florence, Italy.
16.
On 24 November 2014, she took part in an expert consultation entitled “Human
rights considerations relating to the administration of justice through military tribunals and
role of the integral judicial system in combating human rights violations”. At the
consultation, which was organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 25/4, the Special
Rapporteur presented the findings of her 2013 report to the General Assembly on the
administration of justice through military tribunals (A/68/285).
17.
On 12 December 2014, she was the keynote speaker at the International Human
Rights Day Lecture, which was organized in Harare by the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO
Forum and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights.
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