As mass arrests are made following protests and violent clashes in Kazakhstan, it is essential that those arrested or detained have access to a lawyer, to judicial review of detention and to a fair trial, the ICJ said today.
Judges play a crucial role in ensuring that Uzbekistan implements its international law obligations to protect economic, social and cultural rights, a training seminar for judges in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, heard this week.
Civil society should play an active role in the UN treaty bodies reviews of Uzbekistan’s human rights record, an ICJ event in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, emphasised.
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the massacre of 34 people in Roboski, Southeast Turkey, and take stock of the continuing lack of accountability and reparations for the victims and their family members, the ICJ convened a group of experts on 13 December.
“The Roboski massacre was carried out in clear violation of international human rights law”, said Roisin Pillay, Director of the ICJ Europe and Central Asia Programme, “Since then, the Turkish authorities have further violated their international obligations by failing to provide investigation or accountability for the arbitrary killings. Ten years later, the Turkish authorities must end this impunity.”
On 28 December 2011, 34 persons living in Turkish villages near the border with Iraq, including 17 children, were killed by a Turkish military bombshell during a purported “counter-terrorism” operation, known as the “Roboski massacre”.
Today, the ICJ called for the end of political interference with judicial independence in Ukraine during an interactive dialogue before the UN Human Rights Council after the update by the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the country.
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