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RIGHT OF PROSECUTORS ADOPTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROSECUTORS ON THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF APRIL 1999 aarp medicare supplement
Foreword
The International Association of Prosecutors was established in June 1995 at the
United Nations offices in Vienna and was formally inaugurated in September 1996
at its first General Meeting in Budapest. In the following year in Ottawa, the
General Meeting approved the Objects of the Association which are now
enshrined in Article 1.3 of the Association\’s Constitution. One of the most important
of these Objects is to:
\”[…] promote and enhance those standards and principles which are generally
recognised internationally as necessary for the proper and independent
prosecution of offences.aarp medicare supplement
In support of that particular objective a committee of the Association, chaired by
Mrs. Retha Meintjes of South Africa, set to work to produce a set of standards for
prosecutors. A first draft was circulated to the entire membership in July 1998 and
the final version was approved by the Executive Committee at its Spring meeting
in Amsterdam in April 1999.
The International Association of Prosecutors\’ Standards of Professional Responsibility and Statement of the Essential Duties and Rights of Prosecutors is a
statement which will serve as an international benchmark for the conduct of
individual prosecutors and of prosecution services. We intend that this should not
simply be a bold statement but rather a working document for use by prosecution
services to develop and reinforce their own standards. Much of the Association\’s
efforts in the future will be directed to promoting the Standards and their use by
working prosecutors throughout the world.
Preamble
Whereas the objects of the International Association of Prosecutors are set out in
Article 1.3 of its Constitution and include the promotion of fair, effective, impartial
and efficient prosecution of criminal offences, and the promotion of high
standards and principles in the administration of criminal justice;
Whereas the United Nations, at its Eighth Congress on the Prevention of Crime and
the Treatment of Offenders in Havana, Cuba in 1990, adopted Guidelines on the
Role of Prosecutors;
Whereas the community of nations has declared the rights and freedoms of all
persons in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
subsequent international covenants, conventions and other instruments;
Whereas the public need to have confidence in the integrity of the criminal justice
system;
Whereas all prosecutors play a crucial role in the administration of criminal justice;
Whereas the degree of involvement, if any, of prosecutors at the investigative
stage varies from one jurisdiction to another;
Whereas the exercise of prosecutorial discretion is a grave and serious
responsibility; and
Whereas such exercise should be as open as possible, consistent with personal
rights, sensitive to the need not to re-victimise victims and should be conducted in
an objective and impartial manner;
Therefore the International Association of Prosecutors adopts the following as a
statement of standards of professional conduct for all prosecutors and of their
essential duties and rights.
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