Joint press release with Lutheran World Federation (LWF), World Organization against Torture (OMCT), International NGO Committee for Human Rights in Trade and Investment (INCHRITI).
The ICJ has noted the ruling of the Magistrates’ Court in Gibraltar dated 8 August with regard to proceedings involving Chief Justice, Derek Schofield. These proceedings were observed by the ICJ.
The ICJ today wrote to the Government of Guatemala expressing deep concern about death threats made against public prosecutor Leopoldo Zeissig.
Communicated to the President Fernando de la Rúa, the memorandum concerns the right to truth and the jurisdiction of military tribunals to deal with cases of enforced disappearances committed by the military regime.
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today described the handing over of the Former Yugoslav President, Slobodan Milosevic, to the Hague Tribunal as a legal watershed.
On 20 June, the ICJ submitted an amicus curiae on the right to truth to the Inter American Court of Human Rights regarding a case of enforced disappearance (Bamaca) from Guatemala.
Tajikistan: Legal and institutional reforms are required to meet international human rights obligations on GBV
Civil Society Joint Statement: Germany’s surrender of El Hishri to the ICC is a turning point for accountability in the Libya Situation
Tunisia: “Conspiracy Case” appeal proceedings a travesty of justice
EU: Unaccompanied children must not be placed in asylum border procedures