Witness protection in Nepal : recommendations from international best practices
Recommendations from International Best Practices summarizes the current state of witness protection and assistance in Nepal.
UN Human Rights Council: legal framework for operations of intelligence services in countering terrorism to include accountability mechanisms
The ICJ urged all governments to review and repeal laws and policies on operations of intelligence services in countering terrorism that had served to deprive victims of their right to an effective remedy and reparation.
UN-countering terrorism-analysis brief-2011 (full text, PDF)
Human Rights Council: ICJ expresses dismay at new draft resolution on transnationals and human rights
The ICJ and other human rights groups considers that “the draft resolution before the Council falls far short of what is needed”.
“If the Council adopts the resolution as it stands, it will have failed in its fundamental mission to advance the protection of human rights,” they fear.
Resolution on transnatioals and human rights-statement-2011 (full text, PDF)
UN experts’ joint global study on secret detention underscores need for states to end the use of secret detention
Human Rights Council: UN human rights experts are scheduled to present their joint study on global practices of secret detention in the context of countering terrorism.
International human rights law and the criminalization of same-sex sexual conduct
The most visible example of oppression on the grounds of sexual orientation is the continued criminalization of sexual activity between consenting adult partners of the same sex in many states around the world.
Regardless of whether they are enforced, these so-called sodomy laws have the effect of stigmatizing an entire group of people as criminal. International law on the issue is clear. Such laws violate human rights. In this ICJ Briefing Paper, we analyze the application of international human rights law to the criminalization of same-sex sexual conduct.
International human rights law and the criminalizaion of same-sex sexual conduct-anyalsis brief-2010 (full text, PDF)
Council of Europe: committee for the development of Human Rights
The ICJ and Amnesty International welcome the initiative of the Committee of Ministers to prepare guidelines on the obligations of Council of Europe Member States to prevent and counter impunity.
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