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UN Human Rights Council: criteria for a successful outcome of the review of special procedures

Nov 15, 2006

Report launched by the ICJ and others NGOs on the process of the review of the Special Procedures by the UN Human Rights Council, providing criteria for a successful outcome of the Special Procedures review.

Successful outcome review special procedures-Publications-2006 (full text, PDF)

Sexual orientation and gender identity in human rights law, references to jurisprudence and doctrine of the United Nations human rights system

Oct 1, 2006

This third updated edition, prepared by the ICJ addresses the issue of human rights violations on grounds of sexual orientation1 and gender identity.

Human rights standards: learning from experience

Sep 1, 2006

Expert legal panel on corporate complicity in international crimes

Jun 28, 2006

The ICJ has convened an Expert Legal Panel to develop the legal and public policy meaning of corporate complicity in the worst violations of international human rights and humanitarian law that amount to international crimes.

Composed of eight eminent lawyers, this legal Panel is the first of its kind on corporate complicity. It will help to clarify the practical content and limits of complicity – an area of uncertainty and confusion. The Panel will develop legal principles to explain when companies should be held liable in law for complicity in international crimes and, where the acts are not sufficient to attract legal liability, whether companies should nevertheless be considered responsible as a matter of international public policy.

The Panel will establish clear legal guidelines for businesses, NGOs, governments and the United Nations, thereby enabling them to identify when businesses have crossed the line and have become participants in international crimes.

Complicity international crimes-Publications-2006 (full text, PDF)

Independence of the legal profession : global and regional challenges

Sep 29, 2005

Text of Justice Kirby’s address to the Law Council of Australia, Presidents of Law Associations in Asia Conference, held in the Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre, Broadbeach, Queensland, Australia on 20 March 2005.