On 1 July 1997, sovereignty over Hong Kong will be transferred from the United Kingdom to the People’s Republic of China. The six million people of Hong Kong have never been asked to give their consent to this transfer.
The UN Commission on Human Rights will vote next week on a draft resolution proposed by the European Economic Community which would express concern at human rights violations by Chinese authorities in Tibet.
The Indonesian government is “blaming the victims” of a November 1991 massacre in East Timor in which Indonesian security forces killed between 100 and 200 persons, according to the ICJ.
On 12 November 1991, Indonesian Security forces fired automatic weapons at a crowd gathered at Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili, East Timor, killing and injuring scores of people.
Following three missions in 1985, 1987 and 1992 to study the human rights of psychiatric patients in Japan, the ICJ published the conclusions and recommendations.
The recommendations set forth in the report address these issues and are intended to promote more flexible and coordinated mental health care through the mobilization of community resources as well as the provision of adequate budgetary support. Legal reforms are needed to transform the PRB system into an independent procedure in accordance with principles 17 and 19 of the UN principles.
Japan-psychatric patients-mission recommendations-1992-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Joint Letter: Urgent diplomatic action to halt further executions in eastern Libya
Czech Republic: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child finds that immigration detention of children violated the prohibition of arbitrary detention and ill-treatment
UN Human Rights Council once again navigates troubled waters to protect human rights in crisis situations, despite global setbacks.
Joint statement: States Must Act Now to Protect the International Criminal Court from Unlawful US Sanctions