Mar 22, 2006 | Advocacy, Analysis briefs
The ICJ and the FIDH acknowledge various procedural arguments according to which it would be legally impossible or difficult to adopt the draft International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance at the 62nd session of the Commission on Human Rights.
In this regard, the ICJ and the FIDH would like to make some observations.
observations convention enforced diappearance-analysis brief-2006 (full text in English, PDF)
observations convention enforced diappearance-analysis brief-2006 (full text in French, PDF)
observations convention enforced diappearance-analysis brief-2006 (full text in Spanish, PDF)
Mar 15, 2006 | News
The ICJ and the two other human rights groups also called for the draft convention to be transmitted to the UN General Assembly for its final adoption.
Dec 12, 2005 | News
The Coalition of International NGOs Against Torture (CINAT), commends United High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour for making the fight against torture a central theme of this year’s Human Rights Day.
In this context, CINAT wishes to remind States that the prohibition on torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (ill treatment) is absolute and is a peremptory norm under international law.
human rights day-press release-2005 (full text in English, PDF)
Sep 27, 2005 | News
The adoption of an international treaty against forced disappearances at the United Nations is a great step forward in the fight against this crime, said human rights groups.
Sep 14, 2005 | News
The ICJ today called on United Nations member states to salvage the wreckage of their human rights promise by rebuilding a consensus by 31 December, to create a new, standing human rights body with greater authority and effectiveness.
