ICJ Commissioner, Professor Manfred Nowak, and ICJ Co-ordinator Gerald Staberock visited Taiwan on the invitation of the ICJ affiliated organization, the Taipei Bar Association.
The use of Military Commissions for Afghani prisoners of war held at Guantanamo Bay will be used in future as a precedent by military regimes to justify further abuses of human rights.
The failure of the Australian Government to condemn the proposed Military Commissions proposed by the US is a further serious erosion of human rights,” said Steve Mark, Chairman of the Council of the Australian Section of the International Commission of Jurists.
Australia-government stance Guantanamo Bay-press release-2003-eng (full text, PDF)
“The proposals of the Justice Malimath Committee amount to an attack on the judiciary, prosecution and witnesses in criminal trial” said the ICJ.
The ICJ conducts Training on CEDAW and a Roundtable on ICCPR in Maldives.
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers expressed its shock at the killing of three judges in Pakistan after a jail siege on Friday 25 July.
A report by the ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers finds that the aim of the prosecution against a human rights Malaysian lawyer was to intimidate and harass him in his work.
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