Sep 11, 2012 | Events
During the 21st session of the UN Human Rights Council (10-28 September 2012), the ICJ and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights will convene a high-level discussion on ensuring human dignity during detention.
The parallel event will be held in the Palais des Nations in meeting room XXI on Tuesday 25 September 2012 from 14h to 16h.
The event will discuss the need and options for an international instrument clarifying and enhancing the human right legal framework applicable to persons in detention. Panelists include Professor Manfred Nowak, former Special Rapporteur on torture and former member of the Working Group on enforced disappearances; Judge Theodor Meron, Judge on the Appeals Chambers of the ICTY and ICTR; Professor Shaheen Sardar Ali, Vice-Chair of the Working Group on arbitrary detention; and Ian Seiderman, Law and Policy Director of the ICJ. The event will be moderated by Hina Jilani, member of the Panel on Human Dignity and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
The event is open to all persons with access to the Palais des Nations.
HRC21-DetentionEvent-Flyer-2012 (download flyer)
HRC21-DetentionEvent-ConceptNote&BackgroundPaper-2012 (download concept note and background paper)
Sep 11, 2012 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
The ICJ welcomes the first report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence (A/HRC/21/46).
The content of the report elaborates on the four pillars of the Special Rapporteur’s mandate and the ways in which this analysis will inform the execution of his mandate. The ICJ reiterates its support for the establishment of this important mandate, one that is crucial to combating impunity for human rights violations and guaranteeing victims’ access to justice.
In a written statement to the UN Human Rights Council, and an oral statement delivered jointly with Amnesty International on 12 September 2012, the ICJ referred to issues seen as critical to the execution of the Special Rapporteur’s mandate, and the way in which the Human Rights Council should engage with it.
ICJ-HRC21-Item3ID-SRTruthJustice-OralStatementnon-legal submission-2012 (download written statement, in PDF)
ICJ-Amnesty-HRC21-TruthJustice-OralStatement-2012 (download joint oral statement, in PDF)
Aug 22, 2012 | Advocacy
In written statements to the UN, the ICJ says that the General Assembly’s intergovernmental process on the strengthening of the UN treaty bodies has no competence to establish or impose a code of conduct for treaty body members.
Aug 21, 2012 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
The ICJ welcomes the report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to water and sanitation, on the linkages between violations of human rights and the challenge of stigma, in relation to water, sanitation and hygiene.
Aug 14, 2012 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
The ICJ made a written submission and presented several oral statements during the second session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group (IGWG).From 13 to 17 August 2012, the second session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group (IGWG) to consider the possibility of an international regulatory framework on the regulation, monitoring and oversight of the activities of private military and security companies (PMSCs) was held in Geneva, pursuant to the mandate given to the IGWG under Human Rights Council resolution 15/26 (2010). The ICJ was amongst a small number of NGOs participating in this second session.
