The ICJ and other human rights groups called on the LTTE to end political killings and the recruitment of child soldiers and demonstrate how they will respect international humanitarian and human rights law in Sri Lanka.
On the eve of a major legal challenge in the House of Lords, JUSTICE and the ICJ call for the Law Lords to rule against the government’s 9/11 law permitting the indefinite detention of suspected terrorists.
Read the 2nd issue of ICJ’s monthly newsletter on proposed and actual changes in counter-terrorism laws, policies and practices and their impact on human rights at the national, regional and international levels.
The ICJ welcomes the announcement that Yaser Hamdi, a dual US/Saudi national who has been detained as an “unlawful combatant” mostly incommunicado since late 2001, is to be released from a US Naval Brig.
The establishment of new counter-terrorism measures has become a critical global threat to human rights and the rule of law.
The ICJ Secretary-General, Nicholas Howen, presented a speech on counter-terrorism and human rights at the ICJ’s Biennial Conference.
Counter-terrorism and Human rights: Challenges and Responses [full text of speech, PDF]
The ICJ welcomed Malaysia’s highest court ruling overturning former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy conviction and sentence of nine years imprisonment and setting him free.
Joint Statements: Negotiations on the Convention on Crimes against Humanity
Iran: immediately stop mass killings of protestors and other atrocities and end impunity
Kazakhstan: Drop licence revocation proceedings against lawyer Adam Murat
Türkiye: ICJ welcomes acquittal of Istanbul Bar Association leadership and urges an end to the criminalization of the legal profession