Aug 28, 2006 | Advocacy, Analysis briefs
Document submitted by the ICJ to the UN Human Rigths Council Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review on 15 August 2006.
1. The General Assembly Resolution
In Resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, establishing the Human Rights Council, the General Assembly decided:
“That the Council shall, inter alia: […](e) Undertake a universal periodic review, based on objective and reliable information, of the fulfilment by each state of its human rights obligations and commitments in a manner which ensures universality of coverage and equal treatment with respect to all states.
UPR Human Rights Council-Analysis briefs-2006 (full text, PDF)
Aug 15, 2006 | News, Non-legal submissions
The ICJ today welcomed the consideration of a bill by the Philippines’ Senate that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Jul 7, 2006 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
Speech by Nicholas Howen, Secretary-General of the ICJ, on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Jun 27, 2006 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
Six human rights groups issued the following oral statement.
Jun 16, 2006 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
The ICJ and other rights groups call on Member States of the Human Rights Council to adopt the draft International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance at its first session in June 2006 and transmit it to the General Assembly for its final adoption.
Mar 22, 2006 | Advocacy, Analysis briefs
The ICJ and the FIDH acknowledge various procedural arguments according to which it would be legally impossible or difficult to adopt the draft International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance at the 62nd session of the Commission on Human Rights.
In this regard, the ICJ and the FIDH would like to make some observations.
observations convention enforced diappearance-analysis brief-2006 (full text in English, PDF)
observations convention enforced diappearance-analysis brief-2006 (full text in French, PDF)
observations convention enforced diappearance-analysis brief-2006 (full text in Spanish, PDF)
