Selected by a jury of 10 global human rights organizations, including the ICJ, Ilham Tohti has worked for two decades to foster dialogue and understanding between Uyghurs and Han Chinese. Detained in China, he could not travel to collect his prize in Geneva. (more…)
The three human rights defenders selected for the award are Zone 9 Bloggers (Ethiopia), Ilham Tohti (China) and Razan Zaitouneh (Syria). The ICJ is member of the MEA Jury. (more…)
The ICJ today submitted a report to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, ahead of her report to the UN General Assembly in October 2012. (more…)
12. The Committee is concerned about the criminalization of “homosexuality and other indecent acts”, as are other international human rights treaty bodies. As pointed out by the Committee, such criminalization violates the rights to privacy and to protection against discrimination set out in the Covenant. The Committee’s concerns are not allayed by the information furnished […]
On 9 April, the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs acknowledged that 41 suspected terrorists captured in Somalia have been handed over by the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia to the Ethiopian authorities and are currently detained in Ethiopia. According to a recent report by Amnesty International, Ethiopia has not acknowledged detaining all the individuals rendered […]
