Draft Basic Principles and Guidelines on Remedies and Procedures on the Right of Anyone Deprived of His or Her Liberty by Arrest or Detention to Bring Proceedings Before Court - Contributions received

On 17 June 2013, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention sent all Member States a questionnaire on “the right of anyone deprived of his or her liberty by arrest or detention to bring proceedings before court, in order that the court may decide without delay on the lawfulness of his or her detention”, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 20/16, paragraph 11 (a). Responses received so far from Member States are available below and the Working Group encourages all Member States to provide their responses to its questionnaire to inform the development of the draft basic principles and guidelines.

Questionnaire sent to Member States (E, F, S)

Responses from Member States

• Argentina
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Benin
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• Burkina Faso
• Chile
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• El Salvador (1-2-3)
• Estonia
• Georgia
• Germany, (Questionnaire, Overview, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18)
• Greece
• Guatemala
• Iraq
• Ireland
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kenya
• Kuwait
• Lebanon
• Lithuania
• Mexico
• Monaco (Questionnaire, 1-2-3-4)
• Norway
• Oman
• Paraguay
• Qatar
• Republic of Korea
• Russian Federation
• Senegal
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sri Lanka (1-2-3-4)
  Sudan
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• Uzbekistan
• Venezuela

Responses from international organizations and regional entities

• International Organization for Migration (1-2-3)
• European Court of Human Rights
• European Union Fundamental Rights Agency

The Working Group has also sent a questionnaire to human rights treaty bodies and other special procedures mandate holders, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations.

Responses from human rights treaty bodies and special procedures mandate holders

• Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
• Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights (1-2)
• Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
• Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
• Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination 

Responses from national human rights institutions

• Australian Human Rights Commission
• Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism of Belgium
• Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos de México
• Defensoría del Pueblo Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia
• Defensoría del Pueblo Ecuador
• Defensoría del Pueblo Paraguay
• National Committee for Human Rights of Qatar
• National Human Rights Commission of India and Annex
• National Human Rights Commission of Malaysia
• National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia
• Netherlands Institute for Human Rights
• New Zealand Human Rights Commission
• Jordan’s National Center for Human Rights
• Ombudsman of Portugal
• Ombudsman of Ukraine
• Ombudsperson Institution of Kosovo
• Procurador de los Derechos Humanos de la República de Guatemala
• Procuraduría para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos de la República de Nicaragua
• Rwanda National Commission for Human Rights
• Seimas Ombudsmen of Lithunia  

Responses from non-governmental organizations

• Canadian Council for Refugees
• Detention Watch Network and The Advocates for Human Rights (joint submission)
• Freedom Now
• Global Detention Project
• Human Rights Association (IDH – Turkey)
• International Commission of Jurists (1-2)
• International Detention Coalition
• Medical Justice 

Submission from academia

• Oxford Pro Bono Publico

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