ICJ oral intervention on the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in any part of te world
United Nations Commission on Human Rights 59th Session 17 March-25 April 2003 (oral intervention delivered on 1 April 2003). (more…)
Archive | Non-legal submissions
Submission of the ICJ on an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
This document considers the wealth of information available to the working group that will be established at the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on Human Rights to consider options regarding the elaboration of an Optional Protocol to the ICESCR. (more…)
ICJ Addresses UN Human Rights Commission on Adoption of Torture Protocol
On 24 September, the United Nation Human Rights Commission held a one-day informal session, in part to discuss the human rights agenda for the present session of the General Assembly in New York. (more…)
UN Sub-Commission: intervention on terrorism
The ICJ urges the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights to ensure that initiatives and measures taken by States to counter terrorism do not contravene or undermine human rights and principles of international law. (more…)
UN Sub-Commission: intervention on economic, social and cultural rights
The ICJ urges the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights to dedicate efforts towards the realization of economic, social and cultural rights through an Optional Protocol the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. (more…)
UN Sub-Commission: intervention on the administration of justice
In accordance with international law, the ICJ urges the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights to further press for the regulation or prohibition of military courts as essential for the proper administration of justice, right to fair trial and eradication of impunity. (more…)