News – CAJ

Jan

Post-Brexit access to European Health Insurance Card rights for people in Northern Ireland

18/01/2021Publications, SubmissionsBrexit, citizenship rights, EHIC, human rights

The European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) is a free card that provides access to medically necessary (state) healthcare during a temporary stay in either an EU member state or in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, or Switzerland, under the same conditions and at the same cost as an insured resident of that country. In general terms, this...

Dec

MI6 unilaterally assumed power to break law on UK soil, tribunal reveals

16/12/2020News, Press releasesAccountable Policing and Justice, Combating Impunity, Criminal Justice, human rights, MI5

At the Investigatory Powers Tribunal today, it was revealed that MI6 may have unilaterally assumed the power to authorise agents to commit crimes in the UK – potentially without any legal basis or limits on the crimes they can commit. Reprieve, the Pat Finucane Centre, Privacy International, and CAJ have been challenging a secret policy...

Dec

CAJ Annual Report 2020

11/12/2020Annual Reports, Publications, ReportsAccountable Policing and Justice, black lives matter, Brexit, Combating Impunity, COVID-19, Dealing with the past, Equality, equality coalition, human rights, international mechanisms, international solidarity, Northern Ireland Assembly, Protecting Human Rights and the peace settlement

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

Submission to the Committee of Ministers in relation to the supervision of the cases concerning the action of the security forces in Northern Ireland (October 2020)

03/12/2020Publications, SubmissionsAccountable Policing and Justice, Combating Impunity, Committee of Ministers, Dealing with the past, ECHR, human rights, International, McKerr group of cases

The Committee of Ministers is the decision-making body of Europe’s leading human rights organisation, the Council of Europe. Its functions include examining the execution of judgments made by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in a series of cases in which states have been found to have committed human rights violations. CAJ regularly makes submissions the...

Dec

CAJ welcomes publication of independent hate crime review

01/12/2020News, Press releasescountering incitement to hatred, Freedom of expression, hate crime, human rights, international mechanisms

CAJ has welcomed the publication of the independent review of hate crime legislation in Northern Ireland. The review, led by Judge Desmond Marrinan, was commissioned by the Department of Justice in 2019. Among the recommendations of the Review are that NI formally adopts ‘hate crimes’ legislation, which would mean all existing criminal offences could also...

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