Protection of witnesses

witness protection

Witness Protection

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Protection of witnesses, experts and victims

Issue 3. Protection of witnesses

C. Measures to protect witnesses and victims

Witness protection is an issue of paramount concern to the Court.

(ix) Protection of witnesses and victims (articles 24 and 25)

(x) Protection of witnesses and victims (articles 24 and 25)

In favour

(k) Methods to protect and present evidence and to question child witnesses

Action against transnational organized crime protection of witnesses

The Witness Protection Department has started functioning within the Ministry of the Interior, as well.

(g) Best practices identified and disseminated for the implementation of measures for the protection of witnesses

Issue 4. Witness protection

The protection of witnesses must remain an ongoing concern of both jurisdictions.

The Law on Witness Protection was adopted in May this year.

Negotiating with UN Member States about agreements to accommodate on a temporary or permanent basis within the scope of witness protection.

Nine States reported being parties mostly within a regional framework to agreements on witness protection, including witness relocation.

(a) Governments that have yet to establish witness protection programmes are encouraged to do so as a matter of priority and to consider introducing appropriate supporting legislation

The cooperation provided by UNMIK in the protection of witnesses has also been sometimes less than optimal.

Witness protection measures can be used also in cooperation with or on a request from another State.

Financial statement on the revised draft resolution entitled Action against transnational organized crime protection of witnesses

There is an urgent requirement to develop and provide sufficient resources for witness protection programmes in conflict affected countries.

Ms. Stažnik (Croatia) said that Croatia's laws on witness protection, which had come into effect in January 2004, were helpful for the victims of female trafficking since witnesses in such cases had the right to special protection programmes.

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To protect witnesses, the court allows them to testify in camera, or use pseudonyms.

Requests the Secretary General to pay special attention, within the framework of technical assistance activities, to the issue of the protection of witnesses, in order to enable Member States to establish effective witness protection programmes

WITNESSES

Witnessed

Victims of human trafficking get access to witness protection services as stipulated in the Criminal Witness Act of 2003.

That a witness protection programme be established to eliminate pressure on witnesses.

We therefore invite the Tribunal to develop with us a joint mechanism for ensuring witness security, including by signing a memorandum of understanding on cooperation with the Government of Rwanda on all aspects of witness protection.

One delegation remarked that in some cases the protection of witnesses or of persons who had confessed required that certain information should be kept confidential.

A law on protection of witnesses under threat and vulnerable witnesses was also adopted, as well as a new law on the movement and stay of aliens and asylum.

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It may also be due to the witness protection problems and to the management and ethical challenges that have plagued the Tribunal, particularly in its earlier years.

Affidavits produced in police stations were submitted in the absence of witnesses.

New witnesses

Number of Witnesses

'Call the next witness.'

These witnesses have proved it.

Important thing, witnesses.

Positively. Witnesses.