TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 6 7 8 9 Meeting of the Advisory Council of Jurists Acknowledgements Terms of Reference Preface Part A - Executive Summary 10 General Recommendations and Observations Summary of Answers to Questions Posed by Reference Recommendations and Observations in Relation to Forum States 10 13 21 Part B – Detailed Answers to Questions Posed by the Reference 32 Part C – Observations and Recommendations Relating to Forum States 77 General Remarks Forum States 77 79 Glossary 127 Sources of international law referred to in this Report 130 Appendix 1: International Law: Sources and Methodology Appendix 2: UN Conventions and Protocols Relating to Terrorism Appendix 3: Status of Ratifications of Conventions on Terrorism Appendix 4: Other Regional Instruments on Terrorism Appendix 5: Status of Ratifications of Principal International Human Rights Treaties Relevant to Anti-Terrorism Measures Appendix 6: Conventions on Terrorism deposited with the Secretary General of the United Nations Appendix 7: Conventions on Terrorism deposited with other depositories Appendix 8: Concluding Statement of the 8th Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions Appendix 9: Resolution of the Pre Forum NGO Consultation on the Rule of Law in Combating Terrorism 135 144 145 147 148 5 149 151 155 161