Oct 20, 2006 | News
Mandira Sharma, a leading human rights advocate from Nepal, will receive Human Rights Watch’s highest honor on November 2.
In 2001, Sharma helped found Advocacy Forum, a Nepali NGO and ICJ Affiliated Organisation that has played an instrumental role in defending the rights of Nepali people caught in the brutal civil war between Maoist insurgents and the Nepali government, during which more than 13,000 Nepalis were killed, most of them by government troops.
Nepal-HRW honors Nepali activist-Press releases-2006 (full text, PDF)
Aug 24, 2006 | News
The ICJ today wrote to the Prime Minister of Malaysia urging that the Government ensure the protection of lawyer Malik Imtiaz Sarwar.
Aug 14, 2006 | Events
The Honourable Justice Michèle Rivet, President of Quebec Human Rights Tribunal and ICJ Commissioner addressed a speech to the Canadian Bar Association Judge’s Forum on Monday 14 August 2006.
Apr 19, 2006 | News
The ICJ today welcomed the decision of the Military Court of Cassation to drop charges against lawyer Dr Muhamad Mugraby, who was to appear before court on 17 April. The ICJ had sent an observer to monitor the trial.
Apr 13, 2006 | News
The ICJ today called for the immediate release of 69 Nepali lawyers who were arbitrarily arrested and detained as they began a peaceful pro-democracy demonstration this morning in Kathmandu.
