“Ms Gagnon is a distinguished defender of human rights and has demonstrated time and again her profound commitment to advancing human rights,” says Professor Ed Ratushny, President of the Canadian Section of the ICJ.
The ICJ today urged the Government of Argentina to ensure Judge Eduardo Moliné O’Connor receives a fair hearing in the impeachment proceedings currently underway against him in Congress.
Today the ICJ wrote to President Alejandro Toledo urging him to ensure that Peru respect its human rights obligations in its confrontation with striking workers.
The ICJ deplores the summary execution on 11 April of three men who reportedly participated in the hijacking of a Cuban ferry on 2 April 2003.
The ICJ strongly condemns the accusations directed against the Colombian Commission of Jurists (CCJ) by Senator Enrique Gómez Hurtado.
These statements are the latest example of irresponsible and repeated conduct on the part of some politicians, members of the military forces and other powerful individuals connected with the Government who aim to discredit the integrity of the CCJ, its members and other human rights defenders.
The ICJ today expressed its shock at the gang-land style assassination of Judge Antônio José Machado Dias (48, photo) who was shot in the chest and head by two gunmen as he drove home on 15 March.
Judge Machado Dias had been responsible for overseeing the operations of the high security prisons where Brazil’s top organized crime bosses are being detained.
South Africa: ICJ urges high court to apply international law protecting migrants and refugees from discrimination and xenophobia in case involving vigilante attacks
Civil Society Statement Ahead of Cour de Cassation Hearing on Immunities for State Officials in the Case of Bashar al-Assad
Palestine/Israel: Israel must immediately stop its criminal forcible displacement in Gaza
ICJ Submission on draft General Comment No. 27 on Children’s access to justice and effective remedy