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.
The human rights groups welcome the update by the Chair of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.
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.
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)
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.
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)