An introduction to economic, social and cultural rights
Despite having the same binding legal force as civil and political rights, economic, social and cultural rights are not so perceived. (more…)
Despite having the same binding legal force as civil and political rights, economic, social and cultural rights are not so perceived. (more…)
The ICJ is greatly alarmed at unprecedented moves by the US to hold the new International Criminal Court (ICC) hostage to threats to veto the extension of the UN peacekeeping mission in Bosnia (UNMBIH). (more…)
The ICJ today repeated its appeal to the Government of Tunisia to facilitate a mission to examine the independence of the judiciary and the functioning of the legal profession in that country. (more…)
The Guatemalan Government must take effective action to stop the violence and acts of intimidation against members of the country’s human rights community, the ICJ and other rights groups said today. (more…)
The ICJ is deeply concerned about the harassment of Sternford Moyo (photo), the President of the Law Society Zimbabwe and Wilbert Mapombere, Executive Secretary of the Law Society. (more…)
The ICJ intervened today with the Government of Peru in response to action by the executive and legislative branches which threaten to undermine the independence of the judiciary in that country. (more…)