The ICJ issued today its Annual Report 2012 in a new format and design. It offers a concise summary of the work carried out by the ICJ over the last year.
This annual report does not contain an accounting of all the activities undertaken by the ICJ in 2012, the examples found in this report are emblematic of ICJ’s work and highlight some of the most important initiatives.
Download ICJ Annual Report 2012
Download ICJ Annual Report 2012 – Light version
This is the Report of the Legal Seminar organized in Geneva by the ICJ with the support from Geneva for Human Rights, FIAN International and Al-Haq on 31 May 2013.
The seminar was convened to provide a space for in depth discussion of specific cases that illustrate many of the legal and political obstacles that victims of corporate human rights abuse face in their pursuit of justice.
It is one among several activities the ICJ is undertaking with a view to assessing the need for a new international instrument in the field of business and human rights.
The seminar was held under Chatham House rules.
Universal-Report Corporate Complicity Legal Seminar-publications-seminar report-2013 (full text in pdf)
Today the ICJ launches two new innovative legal tools: the Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity UN Database and the Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Legislative Database.
The UN Database gathers all the SOGI-related doctrine and jurisprudence of the UN human rights system in one searchable database.
It is the electronic version of the UN Compilations, which the ICJ has issued regularly since 2005.
The documents are organized by source (such as treaty body, special rapporteur or working group) and it is possible to search the database by source or by country, region or key word.
The Legislative Database is the result of a year-long pilot project in collaboration with the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
Student researchers gathered and analyzed laws from twenty-four countries in all regions of the world. Each country is introduced with a legislative overview.
The laws themselves are LGBT-friendly or neutral with regard to sexual orientation and gender identity. It is searchable by country and topic.
The purpose was to provide the actual texts of laws as comparative examples for use in legislative reform efforts.
The ICJ is very pleased to announce the launch of these new resources to help activists and lawyers around the world advocate for LGBT human rights.
Both databases were created by HURIDOCS.
The hard copy version of the 2013 edition of the UN Compilation can be downloaded below:
SOGI UN Compilation electronic version – publications-2013 (full text in pdf)
This side event was held recently at the UN Human Rights Council. If you missed it, you can read the summary report and/or watch it here. Listen also to interviews of human rights defenders from Ecuador and Uganda.
UNSideEvent-Corporate complicity-conference report-2013 (full text in pdf)
Watch the side event:
Listen to the interview in Spanish with Humberto Piaguaje Lucitante (Ecuador)
Listen to the interview in Spanish with Pablo Fajardo Mendoza (Ecuador)
Listen to the interview with Peter Kayiira (Uganda)
The Tshwane Principles on National Security and the Right to Information seek to protect the right to information and to ensure public access to information held by governments, without jeopardizing legitimate efforts to protect people from security threats.
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