Myanmar: As armed conflict rages and military rule continues, critical measures can be taken towards eventual justice and accountability for victims of Enforced Disappearance
As enforced disappearances and other human rights atrocities continue in Myanmar, there is a great deal that can and must be done to address these cases with a view to bringing justice to victims and their survivors, according to participants at a webinar convened on...
More than fifty years on: enforced disappearance, the families who named it, and the reframing of international protection
On 30 August, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) joins the wider international community in marking the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. This year, the International Day also falls on the twentieth anniversary of the adoption by...
Nepal: National Judicial Dialogue on Justice Sector Actors, Criminal Code Provisions and Supreme Court Jurisprudence on Serious Crimes
On 16 April 2022, the ICJ, together with Advocacy Forum-Nepal and the Judges Society-Nepal, organized the National Judicial Dialogue on the Role of Justice Sector Actors in Effective Implementation of Criminal Code Provisions and Supreme Court Jurisprudence on Serious Crimes.
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The ICJ expressed concern today at the use of abductions in national security cases in Turkey and the enduring impunity for enforced disappearances in certain Latin American countries, during the interactive dialogue with the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disapparances at the UN Human Rights Council.
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