ICJ urges Fijian Parliament to ensure unity bill complies with international law
The ICJ today presented to the Parliament of Fiji a legal submission on the proposed Promotion of Reconciliation, Tolerance and Unity Bill 2005.
Intervention of the International Commission of Jurists on the realization of economic, social and cultural rights
During the 57th Session of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights the ICJ made an oral intervention on the realization of economic, social and cultural rights under Agenda Item Four.
realization ESCR-event-2005 (full text in English, PDF)
NGO workshop on OP-ICESCR, France, September 2005
The ICJ is advising you of an NGO Advocacy Coordination and Development Workshop for the campaign for an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, to be held on Thursday 8 September and Friday 9 September 2005, in Nantes, France.
Open letter to the king of Nepal regarding the National Human Rights Commission
Today the ICJ issued an open letter to the King Gyanendra of Nepal regarding recent developments that put the independence and integrity of Nepal’s National Human Rights Commission at grave risk.
Findings on human rights in Zimbabwe by United Nations and regional bodies
This ICJ document is addressing the situation of human rights in Zimbabwe at the occasion of the 61st session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
It contains excerpts from the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights fact-finding mission report to Zimbabwe and excerpts from UN Commission on Human Rights special procedures reports between 2000 and 2005 pertaining to Zimbabwe. It also includes United Nations Press Releases explicitly referring to the human rights situation in Zimbabwe. Finally, a chart recapitulates the reporting status of Zimbabwe to the human rights treaty bodies. This document has the objective of compiling relevant existing information on the topic in order to frame the debate, and to promote the adoption of informed decisions regarding Zimbabwe by state members at the 61st session of the Commission.
Zimbabwe-findings rights-fact finding mission report-2005 (full text in English, PDF)
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