Oct 20, 2010
The ICJ and other human rights groups welcome the opportunity to comment on the Draft Guidelines on Eradicating Impunity for Serious Human Rights Violations.
Notwithstanding the considerable progress made to date in the drafting of the Guidelines, the organizations hope that they can be further strengthened in the course of this meeting, to add the greatest possible value to the fight against impunity.
The organizations have also made suggestions for additional references in the Guidelines’ reference texts, in a separate paper.
Guidelines Council Europe impunity-analysis brief-2010 (full text in English, PDF)
Oct 20, 2010
The ICJ and other human rights groups suggest that some references be added to the Draft Reference-texts for these guidelines.
Guidelines Council Europe-analysis brief-2010 (full text in English, PDF)
Oct 5, 2010 | News
The ICJ today urged the Government of Nepal to take swift action to enforce pending judicial orders regarding serious crimes allegedly committed by members of both the Nepal Army and the Maoist Party.
These include the 2004 murder of 13-year-old Maina Sunuwar while detained at the Army’s Peacekeeping Training Centre and the 1998 murder of Ujjan Kumar Shrestha by Constituent Assembly (CA) Member Balkrishna Dhungel.
Nepal-cease obstruction justice-press release-2010 (full text in English, PDF)
Nepal-cease obstruction justice-press release-2010 (full text in Nepali, PDF)
Sep 23, 2010 | News
The ICJ urges the Security Council to take concrete measures to ensure accountability for human rights violations committed by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Palestinian armed groups during Operation Cast Lead.
Israeli investigations have failed to meet international standards of effectiveness, independence and impartiality. The Hamas administration in Gaza has also failed to provide any concrete evidence of investigating violations committed by Palestinian armed groups during this period.
Israel-Palestine-investigations failed standards-press release-2010 (full text in English, PDF)
Jun 4, 2010 | News
Les ONG soussignées expriment leur indignation suite à la mort de Floribert Chebeya Bahizire dont le corps a été retrouvé le 2 juin 2010 sur une route à la sortie de Kinshasa, et à la disparition de Fidèle Bazana Edadi.
