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)
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.
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.
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)
The ICJ launched today a new report Nepal: The Rule of Law Abandoned and urges united response at United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
The report sets out nine urgent measures the Maoists and the King’s government should take to tackle the long-standing violations committed by the insurgents and the security forces, as well as the new layer of abuses under the state of emergency.
The security forces have been guilty of gross and systematic violations of human rights, including torture and extrajudicial killings.
The Maoists have been responsible for killings of civilians, and forced recruitment, including of children, and other serious violations of international humanitarian law.
Nepal: The Rule of Law Abandoned [full text, PDF]
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