{"id":5092,"date":"2014-11-20T08:58:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T06:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2014-11-20T08:58:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T06:58:28","slug":"fidh-concerned-about-icc-registrars-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2014\/11\/fidh-concerned-about-icc-registrars-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"FIDH concerned about ICC Registrar\u2019s reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"chapo crayon article-chapo-16493 \" style=\"color: #111111;\"><a class=\"spip_out\" style=\"color: #663333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fidh.org\/IMG\/pdf\/letter_registar_icc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">In a letter addressed to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Registrar<\/a>, FIDH expresses its concerns regarding the consequences that the Registrar\u2019s reform project (ReVision project) could have on the victims\u2019 participation and legal representation in ICC proceedings.<\/div>\n<div class=\"texte_article crayon article-texte-16493 \" style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u201c<i>FIDH supports the reform process, but remains concerned that some aspects of the proposed reforms may fundamentally affect the rights of victims to participate and obtain legal representation<\/i>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0said Karim Lahidji, FIDH President.<\/p>\n<p>FIDH is particularly worried about the fact that the ReVision project would internalise legal representation and rule out external independent legal advice to victims. The presence of external local counsel would become optional and these would have to be employed or contracted by the Court.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the proposed changes do not provide details on the support structure which will be made available to the legal representatives in the field, an aspect which \u2013 in the view of FIDH \u2013 is critical to ensure the victims\u2019 meaningful participation.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"texte_article crayon article-texte-16493 \" style=\"color: #111111;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"texte_article crayon article-texte-16493 \" style=\"color: #111111;\"><a class=\"spip_out\" style=\"color: #663333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fidh.org\/IMG\/pdf\/letter_registar_icc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The letter is available here.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter addressed to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Registrar, FIDH expresses its concerns regarding the consequences that the Registrar\u2019s reform project (ReVision project) could have on the victims\u2019 participation and legal representation in ICC proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,65],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calls-and-statements","category-others","tag-fidh","country-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5093,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions\/5093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}