Open letter to the President of Indonesia on enforced disappearances
ICJ and other human rights groups have written to the Indonesian President to resolve the enforced disappearance of 13 political activists in 1997-98.
ICJ oral statement on access to justice for victims of human rights violations
As part of the 20th session of the UN Human Rights Council (18 June to 6 July 2012), the ICJ today delivered an oral statement calling on the Council to systematically consider the question of access to justice in all of its work.
In a general debate under item 8 of the Council’s agenda (follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action), the ICJ noted the need for every State, individually and collectively, to provide victims of human rights violations with access to justice, including through the provision of effective remedies and reparations.
In calling on the Council to systematically consider this issue, the ICJ called for further consideration of how to strengthen existing, and develop new, international mechanisms, such as a World Court of Human Rights.
ICJ-HRC20-Item8-GD-OralStatement-non-legal submission (2012) (download PDF)
Nepal: commissions of inquiry don’t address need for accountability
Nepal has avoided its obligation to provide justice for serious human rights violations over the past 20 years by relying on ineffective commissions of inquiry instead of using the criminal justice system, a new ICJ report says.
The Syrian authorities must reveal the fate of Mazen Darwish and SCM staff
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Thailand: Court of Appeal overturns conviction in Somchai disappearance case
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