At the request of the Chief Justice of the Republic of Liberia, The Honourable Gloria M. Scott, the ICJ sent a mission to Liberia from Monday, 11 to Saturday, 16 May 1998, to assess the needs of the Judiciary.
The ICJ is deeply concerned by the assassination attempt perpetrated against Mr. Akin Birdal, President of the largest Turkish non-governmental human rights organization, the Human Rights Association (IHD), on 12 May 1998.
The ICJ found that the UN Commission on Human Rights, which ended its yearly session last Friday, continues to be marred by extreme politicization.
Lorsque les violations massives des droits de l’Homme sont considérées dans le cadre du système international, il est paradoxal que la plus grande attention soit toujours portée aux violations en tant que faits et pratiques.
Mais que les personnes qui sont concernées par ces faits et pratiques, les auteurs comme les victimes, soient restées largement en marge du champ d’action que se soit au niveau national comme international.
Cependant, c’est au cours de ces dernières années, que cette donne aura quelque peu évolué. La création de tribunaux ad hoc pour l’exYougoslavie et le Rwanda, ainsi que le projet actuel de création d’un tribunal pénal international et permanent, sont autant de signaux clairs de la détermination de la communauté internationale à combattre l’impunité et d’insister sur la responsabilité criminelle des auteurs de violations des droits de l’homme. La Commission internationale de juristes (CIJ) se félicite de ces développements et les soutient.
Suite dans le PDF ci-dessous:
right to reparation-compilation-report-1998-eng-fra-spa (Texte complet en anglais, français et espagnol – PDF)
In tackling gross violations of human rights in the international system, most attention used to be paid to violations as facts and practices. But the persons behind them – perpetrators and victims – largely remained outside the spectrum of national and international concern.
This is changing in recent years. The establishment of ad hoc international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda and the current proposal to set up a permanent international criminal court are clear evidence of the determination of the international community to combat impunity and to insist on the criminal responsibility of perpetrators. The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) welcomes and actively supports this development.
right to reparation-compilation-report-1998-eng-fra-spa (full text in English, French and Spanish, PDF)
Palestine/Israel: Israel must immediately stop its criminal forcible displacement in Gaza
HRC59: ICJ Statement in the interactive dialogue on the High Commissioner’s report on Venezuela – addressing arbitrary detention and repression of civic space
HRC59: Joint statement during interactive dialogue on Myanmar – addressing ongoing atrocity crimes and the collapse of judicial independence
HRC59: Joint statement during the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Belarus – condemning repression of lawyers and the erosion of judicial independence