Sep 13, 2005
For over 15 years now, Kenyans have been agitating for a new constitutional dispensation.
This was out of a realization that we as a people needed to define our existence as a nation and craft a structure of government that would unify and serve us for posterity.
In seeking to develop a way forward towards the achievement of the above ideals, ICJ Kenya organized a workshop with representation from members of parliament, civil society, government agencies and the academia to interrogate the issues in the month of June 2005. Five options on the way forward emerged.
Kenya-constitution referendum-position paper-2005 (full text in English, PDF)
Aug 17, 2005
The ICJ today presented to the Parliament of Fiji a legal submission on the proposed Promotion of Reconciliation, Tolerance and Unity Bill 2005.
Aug 5, 2005 | Events
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)
Aug 2, 2005 | Agendas
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.
Jun 21, 2005
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.