Mar 11, 2013
The ICJ has brought to the attention of the UPR mechanism issues concerning judicial independence, freedom of assembly and association, freedom of expression and security measures in Malaysia.
The ICJ’s submission comes ahead of the consideration of the situation of human rights in Malaysia by the Human Rights Council’s Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (21 October to 1 November 2013). It includes suggested recommendations to be taken up in the UPR of Malaysia.
Malaysia-ICJ-UPR17-StakeholderSubmission-Legal submission-2013 (full text in PDF)
Malaysia-UPR17-AdvocacyNote-LegalSubmission-2013 (download short advocacy note in PDF)
Malaysia-ICJ-UPR17-ComparisonChart-2013 (full text in PDF)
Mar 8, 2013 | Events
As a member of the International NGO Coalition for the OP to the ICESCR, the ICJ is co-convening a high-level event on the protection of economic, social and cultural rights March 13 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
This event is organized together with the Group of Friends of the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR, including Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, France, Senegal, Spain, Slovakia, Portugal and Uruguay; and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
It will highlight the importance of OP-ICESCR to the full realization of human rights and the need to achieve widespread ratification of the OP-ICESCR to ensure access to justice for all.
Speakers will include the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Water and Sanitation, as well as the Permanent Representatives of Argentina, France, Portugal, Slovakia and Uruguay.
Parallel Event – OP-ICESCR-event-2013 (download the flyer, pdf)
Mar 6, 2013
El Centro de Derechos Reproductivos y la CIJ desean proveer información complementaria al Comité de Derechos Humanos (CDH) en su revisión del quinto informe periódico de Perú durante el 107 periodo de sesiones que tendrá lugar entre el 11 y 28 de marzo de 2013.
Peru-HRCttee107-JointAR-CRR-ICJ-LegalSubmission-2013 (texto completo en español, PDF)
Mar 6, 2013
The ICJ and the Centre for Reproductive Rights (CRR) have addressed the Human Rights Committee on the issue of women’s access to therapeutic abortions in Peru.
In an alternative report for the Committee’s examination of the fifth periodic report of Peru under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the ICJ and CRR submission addresses the failure of Peru to take steps toward implementation of views of the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (KL v Peru and LC v Peru). Both communications concerned the failure of Peru to enable young women access to therapeutic abortions, found to have amounted to violations of the rights of the applicants.
Peru’s fifth periodic report will be under consideration during the 107th session of the Human Rights Committee (11-28 March 2013), following which the Committee will issue Concluding Observations and recommendations.
Peru-HRCttee107-JointAR-CRR-ICJ-LegalSubmission-2013 (download full submission in Spanish)
Mar 5, 2013 | E-bulletin on counter-terrorism & human rights, News
Read the 70th issue of ICJ’s monthly newsletter on proposed and actual changes in counter-terrorism laws, policies and practices and their impact on human rights at the national, regional and international levels. The E-Bulletin on Counter-Terrorism and Human...
