=The ICJ welcomed the draft Optional Protocol that will provide for a comprehensive protection of all substantive rights of the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
The ICJ in the intervention on 11 December 2007 addressed the human rights situation in Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
It called on the Council and the international community to urge the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE to allow for international human rights monitoring and protection, and to urge the Government of Pakistan to lift the state of emergency, restore fully the Constitution and all rights under it, release and reinstate the Chief Justice and other judges who have refused to take the oath of office and repeal the laws and constitutional amendments made since 3 November 2007.
Response Update High Commissioner for HR-Position letters-2007 (full text, PDF)
NJCM, the Dutch section of the ICJ, as part of a coalition of Dutch NGOs, made written submissions to the Human Rights Council on the Universal Periodic Review of the Netherlands.
The submission addressed the legal status of UN human rights instruments in Dutch law; the role of the Netherlands in setting international human rights law standards; issues in reporting under UN human rights treaties; national processes for assessing compliance with human rights; gender policy and mainstreaming; counter-terrorism policy; rights of aliens; and rights to health and education.
Netherlands-Dutch NGOs-UPR-non-judicial submission-2007 (full text, PDF)
ICJ Intervention in the Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council on the Human Rights Crisis in Myanmar.
ICJ Intervention under Item 4 on the Human Rights Situations, that require Human Rights Council’s attention.
Slovakia: The ICJ and 55 organizations express concern over constitutional amendments, urge EU action
Armenia: ICJ condemns detention of defence lawyer Alexander Kochubaev and calls for his immediate release
EU: Litigating before the European Court of Human Rights to protect migrant children from detention
Tunisia: death penalty case symptomatic of rule of law and judicial independence in abeyance