Please find attached a document on launched by the ICJ and other NGOs on the Universal Periodic review of the UN Human Rights Council.
Joint UPR mechanism-Publication-2006 (full text, PDF)
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)
This third updated edition, prepared by the ICJ addresses the issue of human rights violations on grounds of sexual orientation1 and gender identity.
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)
Libya: Authorities must promptly implement the Structured Dialogue’s human rights recommendations
Nepal: Government actions threaten judicial independence
ICJ Convenes Latin America Consultation to Strengthen Non-Criminal Justice Pathways for Redress
India: New foreign funding rules tighten control over civil society and undermine the right to freedom of association