Joint submission presented by human rights groups on behalf of the International Coalition for an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
NGOs invoved: ICJ, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, Foodfirst Information and Action Network and International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia-Pacific
Joint Submission for an Optional Protocol to the ICESCR [full text, PDF]
ECOPETROL presentó una petición de nulidad del laudo arbitral que ordenó el reintegro de 106 de los 248 trabajadores que fueron despedidos arbitrariamente durante la huelga realizada en 2004.
Summary: Address of Dato’ Param Cumaraswamy, Vice-President of the International Commission of Jurists and former UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers. Address given at the ASEM Seminar on Human Rights Series in Suzhou, People’s Republic of China.
International Migration and Human Rights [full text, PDF]
El Gobierno no tiene facultades para declarar ilegalidad de la huelga de la USO: es contraria a las obligaciones internacionales de Colombia, dijó la filial columbiana de la CIJ.
Today, the ICJ and other rights groups submitted an intervention to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, recalling the international human rights of non-citizens.
USA/Israel/Palestine: Immediately rescind sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
Strong push back against US sanctions on the International Criminal Court at UN Human Rights Council
ECtHR Grand Chamber Ruling in Semenya v. Switzerland: Joint Statement of Third-Party Interveners
UN Human Rights Council struggles to fulfil its mandate in the midst of global attacks on human rights, the rule of law and multilateralism