Today, the ICJ and other rights groups submitted an intervention to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, recalling the international human rights of non-citizens.
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers urged the organization’s network to appeal to the Government of Nepal to immediately release seven lawyers currently in detention or to bring charges against them.
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s impartiality in an appeal before the Supreme Court by Vice President Dick Cheney is questioned as the judge and the Vice President took a 3-day hunting trip together.
The ICJ and its United States National Section, the American Association for the ICJ, have submitted a joint amicus curiae brief to the United States Court in the case of Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah, et al., and Shafiq Rasul, et al., v. United states, et al. and George W. Bush, et al.
Este estudio, realizado por la CIJ y publicado conjuntamente con la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas, aborda el problema del enjuiciamiento de militares y policías autores de graves violaciones de derechos humanos por tribunales militares.
El estudio hace un inventario de las obligaciones internacionales de los Estados en materia de investigación, enjuiciamiento y reparación por graves violaciones de derechos humanos así como una presentación sistematizada de la jurisprudencia y doctrina internacionales sobre la cuestión enjuiciamiento de militares y policías autores de graves violaciones de derechos humanos por tribunales militares (Primera parte). El estudio muestra la evolución y las tendencias mundiales en materia de jurisdicción militar, particularmente en 30 países (Segunda parte).
Un segundo estudio, sobre los civiles ante los tribunales militares, será publicado a finales de 2004.
Military Jurisdiction-publication-2004-spa (full text in Spanish, PDF)
More than fifty years on: enforced disappearance, the families who named it, and the reframing of international protection
Türkiye: Osman Kavala must be immediately released following European Court order to quash his conviction
Sudan: ICJ joins call to extend UN Fact-Finding Mission and strengthen accountability
ICJ hosts Johannesburg roundtable on the draft Crimes Against Humanity Treaty with the Malala Fund and other civil society actors