Madame President,
Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada and the International Commission of Jurists welcome the Special Rapporteur’s report.[1] We agree that long-term “regression of… democratic space and civil and political rights and freedoms, interlinked with… monopolization of power” is the key issue.[2]
The ICJ today urged the UN Human Rights Council to call on Ukrainian authorities to uphold judicial independence and protect lawyers under attack for their work during the interactive dialogue with the Deputy High Commissioner on the situation of human rights in Ukraine.
Before the UN Human Rights Council, the ICJ today expressed support on the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ call to ban AI applications that are not human rights compliant and expressed support for UN Special Procedures’ work.
The ICJ and ARTICLE 19 urged today the Council to work to promote a human rights centred approach to countering terrorism, during the interactive dialogue with the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council.
The ICJ, today, drew the Council’s attention to the rising gross human rights violations occurring in Afghanistan and called on Member States of the Council to set up an effective accountability and monitoring mechanism.
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