The ICJ is calling on the State of Argentina to take effective measures to protect the human rights of indigenous groups which have been adversely impacted by lithium exploration and exploitation.
The ICJ today reiterates its call on the United Nations Security Council to take robust measures to end the ongoing attacks on the Syrian population by members of the security and armed forces.
The attacks have resulted in gross human rights violations amounting to crimes under international law.
Syria-protection from violent attacks by security forces-press release-2011 (full text, PDF)
On 18 April, the ICJ will hold a workshop on migration and human rights in Europe where it will explore the situation of the asylum system at the EU level and in certain EU Member States.
This comes after the issuance of the judgment in the caseM.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece by the European Court of Human Rights. The workshop will gather national and international lawyers, NGOs, and EU officials in the Brussels office ofFreshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LPP.
Non-refoulement-Europe-event-2011 (full text, PDF)
Non-refoulement-Europe-summary of the workshop-event-2011 (full text, PDF)
The ICJ and the Zimbabwe Advocacy Office (ZAO) is inviting government representatives, civil society and human rights experts to a dialogue on the growing phenomenon of multi-party transitional governments, election-related violence and the protection of human rights in Africa.
The dialogue, focusing on the cases of Kenya and Zimbabwe will take place during the 15th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Kenya-Zimbabwe-rights governments processes-event-2010 (full text in English, PDF)
Kenya-Zimbabwe-rights governments processes-agenda-2010 (full text in English, PDF)
El seminario (Sao Paulo, 30 Agosto 2010) va a discutir el tema de “Impacto de las actividades de Empresas Multinacionales en la puesta en práctica de las obligaciones internacionales en materia de derechos humanos”. El seminario está dirigido a miembros regionales de órganos de tratados internacionales de derechos humanos y busca crear un espacio de diálogo y coordinación entre miembros de los diferentes comités de derechos humanos y tendrá lugar como continuación de otro seminario que tuvo lugar en Ginebra en Junio del 2010.
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