“The Israeli Supreme Court has taken a significant first step in recognizing the disproportionate and acute hardship the Separation Barrier causes for the population in the Occupied Territories,” said Nicholas Howen, ICJ Secretary General.
“The US Supreme Court has taken the first step in closing the legal black hole in which the US Government is holding prisoners in Guantanamo Bay”, said Nicholas Howen, Secretary General of the ICJ.
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers condemned the arbitrary arrest and detention of a human rights lawyer in Sudan and urged the Government to either bring charges or release him.
Summary: Dinner speech given to the World Bar conference held in Cape Town by the Chief Justice of South Africa Arthur Chaskalson, President of the ICJ.
Comments at the dinner of the Second World Bar Conference at Cape Town on 12 April 2004 [full text, PDF]
The ICJ welcomes the release yesterday of Leyla Zana, a Sakharov prize winner, and her co-defendants.
JUSTICE (the British section of the ICJ) has launched the JUSTICE Journal which is a new six-monthly publication. It aims to promote debate on topical issues relating to human rights and the rule of law.
Nepal: Protesters Demand Integrity, Rights, Rule of Law
India: Joint statement urging Indian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release human rights defender and student activist Umar Khalid
HRC60: Statement by the International Commission of Jurists in the Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
HRC60: International Commission of Jurists in the General Debate under Item 2