The Colombian Commission of Jurists, an ICJ affiliate, delivered an oral statement during the Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice, Reparations and Guarantees of Non-recurrence, and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, at the Human Rights Council.
The International Commission of Jurists has joined other non-governmental organisations to urge the UN Human Rights Council to take action on the situation in Egypt.
The organisations urge the Human Rights Council to adopt a resolution that clearly and unequivocally condemns the ongoing crackdown and increasing restrictions to basic freedoms in Egypt and calls upon the Government of Egypt to fully respect its human rights obligations and to ensure accountability and justice for past and ongoing gross human rights violations.
The letter is available for download in pdf format here: ICJ-UN-HRC-Egypt-OpenLetter-29082014.
The ICJ and other leading NGOs have called on the President and member states of the Human Rights Council, as well as the government of Sri Lanka, to take action to ensure no-one faces reprisals for cooperating with the United Nations.
The UN Human Rights Council today decided to establish an independent, international commission of enquiry to investigate all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the OPT, including East Jerusalem, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip.
The Human Rights Council’s decision, in its Resolution S-21/1, came at the conclusion of a special session of the Council on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. The ICJ itself called on the establishment of a commission of enquiry, emphasising that certain attacks by the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian armed groups constituted crimes under international law and that all perpetrators must be held to account.
The newly established commission of inquiry will report to the Human Rights Council at its 28th regular session in February-March 2015.
OPT-HRC-SpecialSession-OralStatement-2014 (download ICJ oral statement in PDF)
A-HRC-RES-S-21-1_en (download Human Rights Council Resolution S-21/1 in Word)
Go to webpage on ICJ’s written statement to the Human Rights Council
The ICJ has submitted information to the Human Rights Committee in advance of the Committee’s examination of the fourth periodic report of Ireland under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The ICJ submission draws the Committee’s attention to concerns related to access to safe and legal abortion in Ireland.
The Committee will examine the fourth periodic report of Ireland during its 111th session held in July 2014, following which it will adopt Concluding Observations setting out recommendations to the Government of Ireland.
Ireland-HRCttee111-LegalSubmission-2014 (download ICJ submission in PDF)
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GUATEMALA: International organizations express concern over the detention of lawyer Ramón Cadena
Tanzania: African CSOs Call for the Non-Recognition of the Illegitimate Government and for Transitional Justice and Fresh Elections