Jan 29, 2010 | News
The ICJ today welcomed the affirmation by the UN Human Rights Council that human rights and the rule of law must not be forgotten behind the humanitarian crises in Haiti.
“The immediate priority is to ensure that relief efforts are used to address urgent and compelling human rights concerns, the rights to food, health and housing. Haiti and the international community through international cooperation and assistance will then need to adopt specific rule of law strategies to enhance legal system and foster good governance as a precondition for realization of human rights in Haiti,” said Lukas Machon, ICJ Representative to the UN.
Haiti- law rights guide -Press Release-2009 (full text in English, PDF)
Jan 28, 2010
Editorial by ICJ President, Mary Robinson on the death of ICJ former Secretary General.
Jan 18, 2010
The report “Post-War Justice in Sri Lanka: Rule of Law, the Criminal Justice System, and Commissions of Inquiry” addresses the systematic absence of remedies for gross human rights violations in Sri Lanka.
Jan 18, 2010 | News
A new ICJ report released today addresses the systematic absence of remedies for gross human rights violations in Sri Lanka between 1977 and 2001 – a period of widespread disappearances and unlawful killings.
Jan 8, 2010
The ICJ and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) published their submission to contribute in the examination of the 6th periodic report of Poland under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
This submission addresses the consequences for Poland’s obligations under the Covenant of allegations of CIA-run secret detentions in Poland, and of renditions of suspects to and from this centre, established with a high degree of probability to have taken place between 2003 and 2005.
Poland-Human Rights Committee-non-legal submission-2010 (full text, PDF)
