Pursuant to Rule 36 of the Rules of this Court, the ICJ and other human rights groups respectfully submit this brief as amici curiae in support of Petitioners.
USA-Jamal Obama-analysis brief-2009 (full text in English, PDF)
The ICJ today urged the Government of Nepal to demonstrate its commitment to end impunity by arresting Major Niranjan Basnet upon his return from a UN peacekeeping mission in Chad.
Major Basnet is one of four Nepal Army officials accused in the enforced disappearance, torture and killing of Maina Sunuwar on 17 February 2004. Maina Sunuwar’s body was exhumed in March 2007 from its clandestine burial site at the Nepal Army Birendra Peace Operations Training Centre in Panchkhal.
Nepal-army officer-press release-2010-eng (full text, pdf)
Nepal-army officer-press release-2010-nep (full text, pdf)
Этот
обзор
имеет
ключевое
значение, учитывая
невыполнение Беларусью
ряда международных
обязательств
в
области
прав
человека.
Нарушения прав человека включают нарушения свободы выражения, собрания и ассоциации; нарушения прав на свободу и безопасность личности в результате произвольного задержания; и нарушение права на справедливое судопроизводство в контексте контроля исполнительной властью органов судебной власти и юридической профессии.
Доклад напоминает о обязаности Республики Беларусь сотрудничать с международными органами по правам человека.
Belarus-ICJ Submission Universal Periodic Review-2009-rus (доклад, PDF)
The ICJ yesterday briefed the members of the UN Security Council on the impact of counter-terrorism policies on human rights and on ways to re-affirm and integrate human rights into the UN.
UN-integrate human rights in counter-terrorism-web story-2009 (full text, PDF)
The ICJ draws attention to the absence of prosecutions related to Swedish involvement in renditions, and to a few other other issues.
These include: the potential of a new law on interception of communications to violate privacy rights; and issues related to deportation proceedings and administrative detention of migrants.
Sweden-ICJ submission on the universal periodic review-non-legal submission-2009 (full text, PDF)