NGOs and governments say human rights monitoring urgently needed in Nepal
Seven international human rights groups have strongly endorsed the call for international monitoring of the human rights situation in Nepal.
Turkey: no right to a fair trial for Leyla Zana
In a letter addressed to the Minister of Justice of Turkey, the Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers of the ICJ condemned the manifestly unfair trial proceedings in the re-trial of Kurdish former parliamentarians, Leyla Zana and three others.
Cierre de la Corte Primera viola independencia del poder judicial
El Centro para la Independencia de Jueces y Abogados de la CIJ solicitó a las autoridades venezolanas competentes la reinstauración de los Jueces de la Corte Primera, quienes fueron destituídos sin respeto al debido proceso.
Yukos lawyer harassed
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Plans announced by the Government to enlist civilians to perform security tasks in the civil war could enormously aggravate an already dire human rights situation and place the lives of rural Nepalis in grave jeopardy.
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