Eminent jurists end visit to London
Members of the Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights concluded their visit to London today.
Members of the Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights concluded their visit to London today.
The ICJ welcomed the reinstatement of the House of Representatives and called for indefinite ceasefires and a human rights code of conduct as one of several confidence-building measures towards peace.
The ICJ condemns today’s attack on the head of the Sri Lankan Army, Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka and the deaths of his five guards and three civilians, reportedly by a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide bomber.
The Eminent Jurists Panel began its national hearing on terrorism, counter-terrorism and human rights in London today.
Members of the Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counter-terrorism and Human Rights, Justice Arthur Chaskalson (South Africa) and Justice Raúl Zaffaroni (Argentina), concluded their visit to Northern Ireland today.
The hearing, which was organised by the Committee for the Administration of Justice (CAJ), was the fourth in a series of hearings within the global inquiry of the Panel into the impact of terrorism and counter-terrorism on human rights and the rule of law.
Eminent Jurists visit-web-2006 (full text in English, PDF)