The OCGG Justice Section aims at justice for humanity at a global scale for the long term future. This is a world governed in accordance with international law, the rule of law, and human rights.

 

by André Nilsen

Recommendation to the US President and the US Congress

Recognizing the fundamental values of human civilization, the core obligations in international law and the US Constitution, and the essential interests of the United States, the US President and the US Congress should now fully comply with and completely refrain from attempts at circumventing the US Supreme Court’s restoration of habeas corpus in Boumediene v. Bush, while globally and permanently upholding the highest human, legal, civil, and political rights, including renouncing torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, and immediately closing Guantánamo Bay and all other parts of its global detention network.

OCGG Justice Recommendation No 3 (PDF)

 

Oxford think tank urges UK House of Lords, UK Courts, and European Courts to strike down 42 Days Detention

(Oxford, 11 June 2008) Recognizing the UK government’s erosion of habeas corpus by the extension of no-charge, no-trial detention limits to 42 days, the UK House of Lords, the UK Courts, the European Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights should immediately strike down the new terror bill, says a think tank based in Oxford.

Press Release (Word)

 

by Joseph Mitchell

Recommendation to the UK Parliament, the UK Courts, and the European Union

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have not only violated international law and breached human rights abroad. They have also struck at the foundations of rule of law and democracy at home. A host of authoritarian laws introduced by New Labour critically endanger civil liberties and checks and balances in the UK.

OCGG Justice Recommendation No 2 (PDF)

 

by André Nilsen

Recommendation to the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations

The United States is torturing people. The United States is treating people in a cruel, inhuman and degrading manner. The United States is denying people habeas corpus and fair trials. The United States is arbitrarily imprisoning people. The United States is kidnapping people. The United States is sending people to other states it is encouraging, facilitating, and supporting to do all of the above.

The ‘war on terror’ is a serious threat against humanity and civilization. The US should immediately close its global system of abduction, rendition and detention. The UN, the US and the EU should set up independent inquiry commissions to establish the complete truth. The US and the EU should enforce full justice against everyone who has been involved or complicit, starting with the political leaders.

OCGG Justice Recommendation No 1 (PDF)

 

Oxford think tank supports Barroso initiative on immigration

(Oxford, 7 March 2006) Recognizing the European Union’s goal of creating more and better jobs through research and innovation, the EU should offer permanent resident status and citizenship to students from all over the world who complete a PhD in one of the Member States, says a think tank based in Oxford.

Press Release (Word)

 

The OCGG Law Section undertakes projects aiming for greater justice by strengthening the institutions of rule of law and fundamental rights and the effectiveness and legitimacy of justice policies. [More]

André Nilsen, Chairman and Managing Director of the OCGG, calls on the US to uphold habeas corpus and respect the US Constitution and international law in OCGG Law Recommendation No 3.

Joseph Mitchell, OCGG Researcher, criticizes UK laws curbing civil liberties and concentrating power in the government in OCGG Law Recommendation No 2.

André Nilsen, Chairman and Managing Director of the OCGG, calls on the US to shut down its Global Gulag in OCGG Law Recommendation No 1.