ICJ awarded the UN Human Rights Prize
Today the ICJ has been awarded the UN Human Rights Prize. This prestigious award is granted by the UN every five years.
Jurists campaign for the establishment of a permanent International Penal Court
Today, the ICJ launched a campaign for the establishment of a permanent International Penal Court to prosecute those responsible for gross violations of human rights and humanitarian law.
While welcoming the creation of the UN ad hoc Tribunal concerning the former Yugoslavia, the ICJ said that this ad hoc approach does not address the global need to bring all perpetrators of gross violations of human rights to justice.
“The massacres in Cambodia, wilful killings in Liberia, disappearances in Latin America, and torture and deportations of Palestinians, cannot go unpunished. Now, more than any other time in the past, the international community is ready to take practical steps towards the creation of a permanent International Penal Court,” said Adama Dieng, the ICJ Secretary General.
In its Position Paper released today, The Establishment of a Permanent International Penal Court, the ICJ addresses the question of why a permanent Court is needed and provides a blueprint for such a Court. The ICJ concludes with concrete recommendations.
Jurists call for an International Penal Court
During the discussion on the human rights situation in the former Yugoslavia, the ICJ intervened before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights stressing the need to establish an International Penal Court.
Chile judiciary shut its eyes to junta’s brutality, report says
Chile’s judiciary was a pliant partner of the military junta and shut its eyes to violations of constitutional rights, says a report issued today by the ICJ.
ICJ and Fordham University commemorate El Salvador murders
Exactly three years ago, on 16 November 1989, six Jesuit priests were slain at Central American University in EI Salvador along with their cook and her 15-year-old daughter.
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