Joint oral statement to the Human Rights Council on the draft Convention against Enforced Disappearance
Six human rights groups issued the following oral statement.
AI, FIDH, HRW and ICJ’s joint written statement to the Human Rights Council on the draft Convention against Enforced Disappearance
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.
International Convention for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance
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.
Nepal: human rights groups call for targeted sanctions
Nepal’s King Gyanendra and his senior officials and top military officers should be refused entry to other countries and have any personal assets outside the country frozen, urged the ICJ and other human rights groups.
Nepal: joint statement by Amnesty International and ICJ on Maoist ceasefire
Today’s pledge by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) to temporarily halt military activities in the Kathmandu Valley does not go far enough to ensure the protection of human rights, AI and the ICJ said.
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