Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary executions - Christof Heyns (2008- )

Previously, she served as the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Arbitrary and Summary Executions.

Two detailed reports on Arrest, Detention and Torture in Sri Lanka, and the other on Extrajudicial and Arbitrary Killings were distributed among delegates.

In 2001 the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Ms. Asma Jahangir, presented a report on a visit to Turkey.

In 2007 Philip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary executions, spent 10 days in the Philippines investigating these killings.

The Extrajudicial Restructuring (Recuperação Extrajudicial) is a private negotiation that involves creditors and debtors and, as with court-ordered restructuring, also has to be approved by courts.

Notable amongst these reports are the statements by the UN Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Philip Alston, and by the Melo Commission.

In September 2011, the Iraqi government reopened their investigation after Wikileaks published a leaked diplomatic cable regarding questions about the raid made by U.N. inspector Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions.

In late 2010, the United Nations General Assembly Resolution on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, which previously opposed executions for several types of discrimination, including sexual orientation, was changed by the General Assembly to no longer exclude sexual-orientation based executions.

In November 2010, the United Nations General Assembly voted 79-70 to remove "sexual orientation" from the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, a list of unjustified reasons for executions, replacing it with "discriminatory reasons on any basis".

The monitor, Bacre Waly Ndiaye, whose title is United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, met with lower-ranking officials in Washington and New York last week before visiting prisons in Florida, Texas and California.

Extra-judicial killings by the security forces increased over the same period.

A month later, he would confront the issue of extra-judicial duties directly.

This implies extra-judicial measures and challenges the division of power'.

"That extra-judicial killing by the police really created a barrier between security agents and the general population," he said.

Except perhaps a marked increase in extra-judicial killings under the latter's administration.

- passengers have no effective means of control or extra-judicial appeal.

Efforts to create a complete and useful system of extra-judicial resources for European citizens should be stepped up.

But these countries doing extra-judicial killings just haven't paid any thought as to what to do when it comes back to roost.

"There is a policy of extra-judicial killings," he said, something India denies.

Even political prisoners have the right to be in prison without being exposed to the threat of extra-judicial judgments.

Amnesty International has also called for an investigation into alleged "extra-judicial killings" by the police and military.

Martin stated Ireland as a matter of principle opposed extra-judicial killings.

The Jamaican police have a history of extra-judicial killings.

Hence we welcome this initiative to create a user-friendly, extra-judicial network across Europe.

In dealing with these acts, the government does not adopt any extra-judicial measures; existing laws apply.

However, serious allegations have been made that the Israeli defence forces were involved in extra-judicial executions and the use of human shields.

In my opinion that extra-judicial means should be especially strongly emphasised when considering consumer complaints.

Another timely rebuttal to the US policy of extra-judicial assassination.

Israel's extra-judicial killings must end, as they will only breed more terrorists, not force the Palestinians to negotiate.

They have been accused by residents of carrying out extra-judicial executions and revenge killings.

Then I will just bring a drug lord to a judge and kill him there, that will no longer be extra-judicial."

Palestinians call the Israeli tactic a policy of extra-judicial assassination and a provocation to further violence.

Armed opposition groups in India are themselves responsible for gross human rights abuses, including extra-judicial executions.

They are victims of what are euphemistically known as 'extra-judicial killings'.

But in reading about it my curiosity was also aroused about other instances of such extra-judicial activity.