Feb 1, 1994 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
The document consists of three parties. The first is a general review of the basic rules regarding reservations to treaties. The second part contains a country-by-country review, outlining the reservations made by Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Myanmar, Pakistan and Thailand. The third part contains conclusions, focusing on the best strategies for NGO advocacy with regard to these reservations to the Convention of the Rights of the Child.
Asia-Convention Rights of the Child-non-legal submission-1994-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Feb 1, 1994
Los sucesos vividos en los Estados Unidos Mexicanos a principios de 1994, pusieron al descubierto una situación de discriminación y de postergación que afectaba principalmente a importantes núcleos de población indígena. Por otro lado las noticias recibidas de organizaciones afines en México y lo difundido por medios internacionales de comunicación social, hacían temer que en Chiapas se estuvieran produciendo violaciones graves de derechos humanos con motivo del levantamiento indígena y la acción gubernamental de
respuesta. Ello decidió a la CIJ a enviar con urgencia una misión a México.
Mexico-indigenous rebellion Chiapas-fact finding mission-1994-spa (download full report in PDF)
Feb 1, 1994 | News
The ICJ is sending an eight-day fact-finding mission to Mexico today.
The aim of the mission is to investigate the situation prevailing in the southern Mexican State of Chiapas where an armed insurrection led by the “Zapatista National Liberation Army”‘ has met a strong military response.
The mission is comprised of Dr Alejandro Artucio (ICJ Legal Officer for Latin America) and Dr Eduardo Luis Duhalde (Argentina). They will meet officials of the Federal Mexican Government, members of the State authorities of Chiapas, representatives of the local indigenous peoples and of human rights organizations, political and religious leaders as well as all other parties concerned.
Feb 1, 1994
Los sucesos vividos en los Estados Unidos Mexicanos a principios de 1994, pusieron al descubierto una situación de discriminación y de postergación que afectaba principalmente a importantes núcleos de población indígena.
Jan 18, 1994 | News
A three-day seminar on the Media and the Judiciary organized by the ICJ opens today in Madrid, Spain.
