ICJ and other human rights groups call on the Human Rights Council to adopt the draft International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and transmit it to the General Assembly.
The trial of the six trustees of the independent radio station “Voice of the People” (VOP), begins today at the Magistrates’ Court, Rotten Row, Harare.
The ICJ expressed its grave concern today at what it called serious and persistent harassment of lawyers in Ecuador representing 30,000 plaintiffs in a civil action against U.S. company Chevron.
The ICJ today called on all states to end involvement in these systematic human rights violations perpetrated under the guise of countering terrorism.
Le Comité d’Eminents Juristes sur le terrorisme, la lutte contre le terrorisme et les droits de l’Homme conclut aujourd’hui son audience sous-régionale au Maroc.
Le Comité est un groupe indépendant composé de huit juristes nommés par la Commission internationale de juristes (CIJ) pour examiner l’impact global du terrorisme et des mesures anti-terroristes sur l’état de droit et les droits de l’Homme.
Pendant sa visite, le Comité a tenu une audience sous-régionale sur le terrorisme et les droits de l’Homme à Rabat, sous les auspices de l’Organisation Marocaine des Droits Humains (OMDH), une organisation affiliée à la CIJ.
Maghreb-meeting eminent jurists panel-press release-2006-fra (Communiqué de presse complet en PDF)
The UN Human Rights Council makes significant but limited progress in addressing human rights around the world, as atrocities multiply in the Middle East and elsewhere
ICJ hosts an African Regional Convening in Kenya on Transformative Equality Jurisprudence
Russian Federation: Arbitrarily detained human rights lawyer Maria Bontsler must be released
ICJ Oral statement at HRC urgent debate on protection of children and schools in armed conflict