Date
Type
20/12/2012
UA
20/12/2012
JAL
20/12/2012
JAL
Mandate(s)
Summary of the allegation transmitted
HND 13/2012
Honduras
Independence of
judges and lawyers;
Supuesta injerencia en la independencia de la judicatura. Según las
informaciones recibidas, el Congreso Nacional destituyó a cuatro de los
cinco magistrados de la Sala Constitucional de la Corte Suprema de Justicia:
los señores José Antonio Gutiérrez Navas, Gustavo Enrique Bustillo Palma,
José Francisco Ruiz Gaekel y la señora Rosalinda Cruz Sequeira. El
procedimiento de destitución fue supuestamente realizado durante la
madrugada del 12 de diciembre de 2012 sin la debida transparencia, con el
supuesto fundamento en los artículos 205, numeral 20, 321 y 324 de la
Constitución de la República de Honduras. Sin embargo se informa que este
procedimiento de destitución habría sido llevado a cabo como medida de
represalia política, en razón de los votos por parte de los cuatro magistrados
en referencia a favor de un recurso de amparo en contra del Decreto 892012 que creó la Ley de Depuración de la Policía Nacional.
IND 25/2012
India
Adequate housing;
Extreme poverty;
Alleged impacts of the expansion of the East Parej Open Cast Coal Mine on
the rights of 228 families in the Jharkhand state. According to the
information received, 228 families (1200 persons) were at risk of being
evicted to give way to an expansion of East Parej Open Cast Coal Mine,
operated by Central Coalfields Limited, India. On 26 October 2012, and at
two other occasions, representatives of the mining company surveyed
households in the villages of Agarva Tola, Dudmitya Tola and Fakodih, for
the purpose of acquiring their homes to facilitate the expansion of the mine.
Over 1,000 people from surrounding villages have already been displaced in
previous years by activities associated with the East Parej Open Cast Coal
Mine. The affected households belonged to marginalized communities,
including scheduled tribes and Dalits. They were allegedly resettled in
inadequate sites and have suffered impoverishment since displacement.
ISR 13/2012
Israel
Freedom of peaceful
assembly and of
association; Human
rights defenders;
OPT;
Alleged raids on several NGO offices in Ramallah. According to the
information received, on 11 December 2012, the offices of Addameer
Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, the Union of Palestinian
Women‘s Committee and the Palestinian NGO Network in the city of
Ramallah were broken into by Israeli soldiers. Files, furniture and office
appliances were reportedly destroyed. Several laptops and documents were
also confiscated. It is alleged that these raids may be aimed at intimidating
and silencing associations working in the field of human rights.
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