Annual Reports Archives

At the end of each calendar year, CAJ releases a new Annual Report.

Dec

CAJ Annual Report 2021

10/12/2021Committee on the Administration of JusticeAnnual Reports, Publications, Reports

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the founding conference that established the Committee on the Administration of Justice. 1981 was one of the worst years of the Troubles, with 117 people dying, 10 of them on hunger strike and seven through being hit by plastic bullets. Many of the others were victims of armed...

Dec

CAJ Annual Report 2020

11/12/2020Committee on the Administration of JusticeAnnual Reports, Publications, Reports

Since our last Annual Report, the world has changed. A pandemic grips the planet, with over 68 million cases of Covid-19 infection and over one and a half million deaths caused by the virus. This is the most significant change on a global level and there are many consequences for human rights, negative and positive....

Dec

CAJ Annual Report 2019

11/12/2019Committee on the Administration of JusticeAnnual Reports, Publications, Reports

This has been a dispiriting year of disruption and disillusion as the Brexit process has lurched from constitutional breaches to open unlawfulness along a track littered with broken promises and discarded lies. The year is ending with a UK General Election that will decide all of our immediate futures. The result will not be known...

Dec

CAJ Annual Report 2018

10/12/2018Committee on the Administration of JusticeAnnual Reports, Publications, Reports

People in Northern Ireland are sometimes accused, not always unjustly, of having an exaggerated sense of our own importance. We are told that this small territory, barely 80 miles across, is not actually the centre of the world. That may be true, but for the past two years, and potentially for years to come, Northern...

Dec

CAJ Annual Report 2017

15/12/2017Committee on the Administration of JusticeAnnual Reports, Reports

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Nov

CAJ Annual Report 2016

22/11/2016Committee on the Administration of JusticeAnnual Reports, Publications, Reports

CAJ Annual Report 2016 The year 2016 marks the 35th anniversary of CAJ’s formation. In the dark days of 1981, a standing committee was formed to keep alight the principles of human rights in the midst of a storm of violence and repression. The dogged determination to focus on human rights standards and hold the...

Nov

CAJ Annual Report 2015

22/11/2015Committee on the Administration of JusticeAnnual Reports, Publications

Like most years, 2015 has been mixed in terms of the protection and promotion of human rights. At the beginning of the year, there was optimism that the implementation of the Stormont House Agreement might lead to a measure of truth and justice for victims and survivors of the conflict. It was followed by at...

Nov

CAJ Annual Report 2014

22/11/2014Committee on the Administration of JusticeAnnual Reports, Publications

CAJ correctly describes itself as a human rights NGO. We are members of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), we orientate our work by reference to international human rights law and we locate ourselves in the mainstream of human rights activism worldwide. However, we cannot deal in detail with all aspects of human rights,...