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 2022)
Our latest submission to the Committee of Ministers was drafted for consideration at the upcoming 1451st meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies (December 2022). It focuses on the deeply flawed Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill, which is continuing to progress through the UK Parliament despite concerns that it is not compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Download the submission here. A later addendum to the submission, drafted November 2022, is available here.
What is the Committee of Ministers?
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 Committee of Ministers on the ‘McKerr group of cases’ concerning the actions of the security forces in the 1980s and 1990s in Northern Ireland.