Thailand’s Senate must pass a draft law that would criminalize enforced disappearances and do more to put an end to such violations, international experts and Thai human rights defenders urged at a workshop co-hosted on 30 June in Bangkok by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Thailand’s Ministry of Justice.
The ICJ today called on States to impose an arms embargo and targeted sanctions against Myanmar military in a statement before the UN Human Rights Council.
The ICJ called on the UN Human Rights Council today to establish a mechanism for missing and disappeared people in Syria during the dialogue with the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria.
The ICJ today denounced the continuing endemic impunity in Belarus for gross violations of human rights before the UN Human Rights Council during the interactive dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus.
The ICJ today delivered a statement before the UN Human Rights Council denouncing the increasing human rights violations in Nicaragua and calling on the authorities in Nicaragua and other parties to lend all support and collaboration to the Council’s Group of Human Rights Experts in investigating human rights violations.
Massimo Frigo, ICJ UN Representative, e: massimo.frigo(a)icj.org, t: +41797499949
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