B. The right to life and security of the person 8. Recent months have witnessed a spate of unresolved killings in Freetown and in the regions, especially of women. In September 2004, a well-known lesbian activist, Fanny Ann Eddy, was murdered in Freetown allegedly for her sexual orientation and outspokenness in support of gay and […]
The ICJ welcomes the decisions of Colombia, Croatia, Ecuador, Liechtenstein, Paraguay, San Marino and Sierra Leone to extend standing invitations to all the thematic mechanisms of the UN Commission on Human Rights to visit their countries. (more…)
Judicial institutions in Sierra Leone are moribund or almost completely ineffective as a consequence of a devastating civil war dating from 1991. Judges are poorly resourced and often ill-trained. (more…)
The ICJ congratulates the United Nations Security Council for unanimously adopting Resolution 1315 (2000), which calls for an independent special court to try perpetrators of international law crimes in Sierra Leone. (more…)
This issue of the CIJL Bulletin contains case reports on Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Iran, Guatemala, Namibia, Poland and Sierra Leone and information about the Paris Colloquium on Argentinian Lawyers. (more…)
This bulletin was published following the first Conference of French-speaking African Jurists, held in Dakar from January 5 to 9 1967, organised by the ICJ, its French national section Libre Justice and the Association Sénégalaise d’Etudes et de Recherches Juridiques. (more…)
