International experts reject amnesty for human rights abuses
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International experts to discuss impunity for human rights abuses
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Report finds jurists at risk around the world
At least 447 jurists from 46 countries were targets of persecution in the last year as they carried out their work, the ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers reported today.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on economic, social and cultural rights, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1992/16, 3 July 1992
185. Both the upcoming Expert Seminar on Indicators and the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights could provide a venue for exploring in programmatic terms how most effectively to pursue the issue of violations of economic, social and cultural rights. It must be...
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