This submission has been prepared in advance of the review of Iceland’s 6th periodic on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by the UN Human Rights Committee in October 2024. In particular, the submission provides information about harmful and unjustified use of pre-trial solitary confinement, failure to ensure fair trial…
This submission has been prepared in advance of the review of Iceland’s sixth periodic report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Covenant) by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Committee) in September 2024.
Amnesty International’s research evidences an abusive use of solitary confinement in pre-trial detention in Iceland. The report is based on extensive desk research as well as interviews with relevant experts from across the justice system and people subjected to solitary confinement. The findings show that, contrary to the international prohibition on torture and other ill…
This oral statement was delivered by Amnesty International at the 50th session of the UN Human Rights Council and provides commentary on the outcome of Iceland’s 3rd Universal Periodic Review. Specifically, it welomes the commitment to establish a strong, independent National Human Rights Institution, but urges greater progress towards ratification of important human rights and…
Amnesty International submits this briefing in advance of the examination of Iceland by the UN Committee against Torture during its 73rd session in April–May 2022. In this brief submission, Amnesty International sets out its concerns about the use of solitary confinement in the context of pre-trial detention, in line with the Committee’s questions under Article…
This joint submission by The Icelandic Human Rights Centre, the Women’s Rights Association, Barnaheill – Save the Children Iceland, Humanists Iceland, the National Association of Intellectual Disabilities and Amnesty International addresses concerns about the Icelandic government’s international human rights obligations and ratifications of core treaties, equality and non-discrimination, personal liberties and security, the prison system…
Every year, children are born with sex characteristics (genitals, gonads, hormones, chromosomes or reproductive organs) that vary from the established norms for ‘male’ and ‘female’. In this report, Amnesty International documents the specific human rights violations faced by children with variations of sex characteristics in Iceland, and the lifelong effect of these violations. In particular,…
The Nordic Youth Conference is an annual event which brings together youth activists from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Founded in 2005 and organized by Amnesty International offices in the Nordic region, the conference provides an annual platform to build youth networks and promote sustainable activism.
Amnesty International urges Iceland to complete the ratification of the Optional Protocols to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Convention against Torture without delay. Amnesty International calls on Iceland to accept more refugees, including through resettlement and relocation programs.
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This document is a survey of progress towards complete abolition of the death penalty in Europe. It gives a chronology of moves towards abolition from 1947 to 1991 and provides information on death penalty related issues in 43 European countries. The appendices include the text of the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, aiming at…