The ICJ, along with Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada and Human Rights Watch, sent a letter to the Government’s Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir expressing concern at the arbitrary detention of Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez. (more…)
Indian authorities have detained a Kashmiri human rights activist after stopping him from traveling to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Human Rights Watch and the ICJ said today. (more…)
Probe, don’t promote, alleged human rights abuser Kuber Singh Rana, Human Rights Watch and the ICJ said today. (more…)
In 2009, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights initiated the “Dublin Process” to encourage all stakeholders in the treaty monitoring process to provide suggestions for strengthening of the treaty body system. (more…)
The ICJ, AI and HRW express their concern that the human rights situation in Nepal remains precarious and that accountability for wartime abuses is being put further and further out of reach. (more…)
During the 19th session of the Human Rights Council, a plenary Panel discussion was convened on discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity – the first of its kind. (more…)
