Human rights envoy to visit
published: Friday | February 14, 2003
THE COMMISSION on Human Rights' special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Asma Jahangir, will visit Jamaica from February 17 to 27.
During her visit, Ms. Jahangir is scheduled to meet Government Ministers, senior Government officials and representatives of the police, the judiciary, and the security forces. She also plans to meet representatives of the legal profession, non-governmental organisations, as well as other private organisations and individuals.
The visit, which comes at the request of the special rapporteur, has been agreed to by the Government of Jamaica.
On completion of the mission, Ms. Jahangir will report to the Commission on Human Rights.
Ms. Jahangir, an advocate at the Supreme Court of Pakistan, was appointed Special Rapporteur in August 1998 with a mandate to examine situations of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and to monitor the implementation of existing international standards on safeguards and restrictions relating to the imposition of capital punishment. Since her appointment she has visited Mexico, East Timor, Nepal, Turkey, Honduras, the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia and Albania in connection with the Kosovo conflict, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and, most recently, Afghanistan in October 2002.
