In its crusade for legal reforms, the ICJ and Haryana & U.T. Chandigarh Section & High Court Bar Association organized a discussion on ‘Enhancing the efficacy of Habeas Corpus’ in the Punjab & Haryana High Court.
Concerned by allegations of arbitrary arrests and summary executions in Rwanda, the ICJ launched an appeal to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to urgently send a fact-finding mission.
The ACHPR is presently meeting in Banjul (The Gambia). The ICJ which has been granted an observer status with the African Commission is prepared to assist the Commission within the limits of its competence and resources.
The ICJ calls on EU Member States not to contribute blindly to Colombia’s programme of demobilization and reintegration of paramilitaries and armed opposition groups.
On the fifth anniversary of the kidnapping of the Associated Press Middle East correspondent, Terry Anderson, the ICJ appeals on humanitarian grounds to those who are holding him to set him free.
We are at a loss to understand for what purpose his captors are holding him. Of all the American and European victims of kidnapping in the Middle East, he is believed to be the longest held captive. . As all governments have made clear that they are not prepared to barter his release, we urge all those who have any influence with his captors to join in urging his release. At the same time we make a similar appeal in favour of all those held captive in this way, including the latest two, the health professionals of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Emanuel Christen and Elio Enrique, who have now been held in captivity for over four months.
JUSTICE (the British section of the International Commission of Jurists) has launched the JUSTICE Journal which is a new six-monthly publication.
Pakistan – Dismantling Justice: A Full-Frontal Assault on the Rule of Law
Egypt: New Criminal Procedure Code violates human rights
GUATEMALA: International organizations express concern over the detention of lawyer Ramón Cadena
Tanzania: African CSOs Call for the Non-Recognition of the Illegitimate Government and for Transitional Justice and Fresh Elections