The UN Human Rights Council adopted the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances and decided to send it to the UN General Assembly for adoption.
Six human rights groups issued the following oral statement.
The ICJ and other rights groups call on Member States of the Human Rights Council to adopt the draft International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance at its first session in June 2006 and transmit it to the General Assembly for its final adoption.
ICJ and other human rights groups call on the Human Rights Council to adopt the draft International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and transmit it to the General Assembly.
Members of the Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counter-terrorism and Human Rights, Justice Arthur Chaskalson (South Africa) and Justice Raúl Zaffaroni (Argentina), concluded their visit to Northern Ireland today.
The hearing, which was organised by the Committee for the Administration of Justice (CAJ), was the fourth in a series of hearings within the global inquiry of the Panel into the impact of terrorism and counter-terrorism on human rights and the rule of law.
Eminent Jurists visit-web-2006 (full text in English, PDF)
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