The International Commission of Jurists, with FORUM-ASIA and NNC-UPR, cordially invite you to a parallel event to the 10th Session of the Universal Periodic Review on “Background to the Human Rights Crisis in Nepal: Impunity for Human Rights Violations”.
Nepal-humanrightsviolations-news-2011 (full text, PDF)
The ICJ and other human rights groups submitted an amicus curiae brief to the US Supreme Court in the leading rendition case of Mohamed and Others v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.
The defendant is a private company accused of providing flight services to facilitate the US rendition program involving the unlawful transfer of detainees to situations of arbitrary and secret detention, torture and enforced disappearance.
The brief supports review by the Supreme Court with the view to reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals dismissing the case for reasons of state secrecy and addresses the obligations under international human rights law on the right to an effective remedy and reparations for torture, enforced disappearances and other human rights violations.
The brief is also joined by Swiss Senator Dick Marty, former Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe inquiry on Alleged Secret Detentions and Unlawful Inter-State Transfers of Detainees involving Council of Europe Member States, Professor Manfred Nowak (former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2004-2010)), Professor Robert Goldman (former UN Independent Expert on Terrorism and Human Rights) and Professor Stefan Trechsel, (Judge ad litem at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)). Professor Goldman and Professor Trechsel served on the ICJ’s Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counter Terrorism and Human Rights.
USA-amicuscuriae-advocacy-2011 (full text, PDF)
The ICJ today deplored the failure of the Syrian authorities to protect the physical integrity ICJ Commissioner Muhannad Al-Hasani, an internationally renowned lawyer and human rights defender currently in jail.
The ICJ today urged the Government of Nepal to reverse its decision to extend the tenure of Colonel Raju Basnet, alleged to have been involved in systematic enforced disappearance and torture and ill-treatment.
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)
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