Sep 16, 2011
The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, transmitted to the President of the UN Human Rights Council the report of his Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka.
The report includes various conclusions and recommendations, including those directed to the Human Rights Council itself.
A coalition of non-governmental organisations has, by open letter, called on the President of the Council to issue a President’s Statement inviting the Government of Sri Lanka and the UN Secretary-General to present to the Council the Panel of Experts report and the Government’s own investigations during the 19th regular session of the Human Rights Council in March 2012.
Sep 16, 2011 | Events
The 9th World Day Against the Death Penalty will focus on the inhumanity of the death penalty as a cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment.
Sep 14, 2011 | Advocacy, Legal submissions
The ICJ published today its observations on the 1 June 2011 recast of the European Union “Directive on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection”.
Sep 13, 2011 | News
The ICJ expressed its concern today at the violent forced eviction of some 300 members of the campesino community Nueva Esperanza in the Department of Petén, Guatemala.
The evictees, including children and elderly persons, were forced to take refuge in the mountains or forest and have been left without shelter and means of subsistence.
Guatemala-end the forced evictions of campesinos-press release-2011 (full text, PDF)
Sep 12, 2011 | Events
The Kenyan Section of the ICJ and other human rights institutions will be convening the Third Roundtable on strengthening the African human rights system in Mombasa, Kenya from 20 – 21 October 2011.
