Guatemala: Amicus Curaie on the right to truth
On 20 June, the ICJ submitted an amicus curiae on the right to truth to the Inter American Court of Human Rights regarding a case of enforced disappearance (Bamaca) from Guatemala.
UN Commission on Human Rights: two significant outcomes
Advances in negotiations on a treaty on Enforced Disappearances and an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) were two significant developments at the 57th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights.
The death penalty: condemned
The ICJ today released a report, The Death Penalty: Condemned, in which capital punishment is found to violate international human rights law.
Jurists denounce lethal weapons for control of peaceful demonstration in Gambia
Today, the ICJ condemned the practice of shooting unarmed demonstrators with lethal firearms, which has caused the death of at least 12 Gambian children and one official of the Gambian Red Cross Society.
ICJ condemns the outrageous murder of ICRC delegates in Chechnya
The ICJ expresses total shock and utter dismay over the brutal and outrageous murder of six delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Novye Atagi, near Grozny, in Chechnya, yesterday.
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