Apr 29, 2011 | News
The United Nations Human Rights Council today convened a special session on the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic.
By affirmative vote of 26 of the 47 members, the Council adopted a resolution on the human rights crisis in Syria.
While welcoming the content of the resolution, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) expressed regret that the Human Rights Council was unable to adopt a resolution on such a critical situation without consensus. The ICJ had called on the Council to take strong and unanimous action in response to the ongoing gross human rights violations committed by the Syrian security forces, including members of the Presidential guard and pro-regime militia.
Syria-finding mission-UN-web story-2011 (full text, PDF)
Apr 28, 2011 | News
The ICJ today called upon Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and the transitional government to take immediate, concrete, measures to protect human rights.
These measures should aim to end the practice of torture and arbitrary detention; pursue accountability for serious human violations; ensure that civilians are not prosecuted before military courts; and adopt, in accordance with international standards, legal and policy reforms necessary to establish the Rule of Law and effective democratic institutions in Egypt.
Egypt-establishment of effective democratic institutions-press release-2011 (full text, PDF)
Apr 27, 2011 | News
On April 21, the ICJ observed an appeal hearing at the cassation instance of St. Petersburg City Court.
ICJ Commissioner Gulnora Ishankhanova and Russian lawyer Maxim Timofeyev acted as the ICJ observers.
Russian Federation-appeal hearing-St. Petersburg-web story-2011-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Russian Federation-appeal hearing-St. Petersburg-web story-2011-rus ( full text in Russian, PDF)
Apr 23, 2011 | News
The ICJ today called upon the UN Security Council to take concrete measures to ensure the immediate protection of all people whose lives are under threat by the ongoing violent crackdown by Syrian security forces.
Syria-protect Syrian population against killings-press release-2011 (full text, PDF)
Apr 15, 2011 | Events
On 18 April, the ICJ will hold a workshop on migration and human rights in Europe where it will explore the situation of the asylum system at the EU level and in certain EU Member States.
This comes after the issuance of the judgment in the caseM.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece by the European Court of Human Rights. The workshop will gather national and international lawyers, NGOs, and EU officials in the Brussels office ofFreshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LPP.
Non-refoulement-Europe-event-2011 (full text, PDF)
Non-refoulement-Europe-summary of the workshop-event-2011 (full text, PDF)
Apr 14, 2011 | News
The ICJ has called upon the Tunisian authorities to take immediate steps to pursue accountability for past human rights violations and to reform the country’s legal framework.
The statement comes as the ICJ concluded a high-level mission to Tunisia aimed at assessing the Rule of Law and human rights situation in the country following theouster of the regime of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on 14 January 2011.
The mission was headed by ICJ President Pedro Nikken, who was accompanied by ICJ Secretary General Wilder Tayler, and ICJ Legal Adviser for the Middle East and North Africa Saïd Benarbia.
Tunisia-rule of law and human rights accountbility-press release-2011 (full text, DPF)
