The ICJ urges Chinese authorities to release lawyers
China must immediately release all lawyers detained for carrying out their professional functions or for exercising their human rights, the ICJ said in a letter today to President Xi Jinping.
Military Justice?
An opinion piece by Reema Omer, ICJ Legal Adviser, Asia & Pacific Programme.
Republic of Korea: ICJ and other rights groups submit Amicus Curiae opinion to the Constitutional Court
Today, the ICJ, together with Amnesty International, Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers), the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, and War Resisters’ International, submitted an Amicus Curiae opinion to the Constitutional Court of Korea (Republic of Korea).
The interveners submit, among other things, that compulsion to engage in military service contrary to an individual’s conscience or religion or belief constitutes a violation of international human rights law and standards.
Korea-Amicus Opinion-Advocacy-legal submission-2014 (full text in pdf)
Pakistan: government fails to provide facts, justice, and reparations to victims
The ICJ, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch urge Pakistan’s government to stop the deplorable practice of state agencies abducting hundreds of people throughout the country without providing information about their fate or whereabouts.
Nepal: end impunity for enforced disappearances
On the eve of the annual International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the ICJ once again calls on the Nepali authorities to provide justice to the hundreds of victims of enforced disappearances committed during the decade-long armed conflict.
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