Human Rights Council – Countering Terrorism: ICJ oral intervention
Oral intervention of the ICJ on counter-terrorism.
Joint intervention by the ICJ and HRW on disappearances in various countries
The human rights groups welcome the update by the Chair of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.
Yogyakarta Principles
The ICJ and the International Service for Human Rights are developing a set of international legal principles on the application of international law to human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Regional human rights references to human rights violations on the ground of sexual orientation and gender identity
Please find attached a recent ICJ document on the Inter-American Human Rights System with refrences to human rights violations on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Inter-America-regional reference violations-Publications-2007 (full text, PDF)
Statement by the ICJ on the progress reports and further discussion or decisions of the working group on the universal periodic review
Oral statement of the ICJ on the Progress reports and further discussion or decisions of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, released on Monday 4 December 2006 at the third session of the Human Rights Council.
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