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Human Rights Day, 10 December

Human Rights Day presents an opportunity, every year, to celebrate human rights, highlight a specific issue, and advocate for the full enjoyment of all...

Dec 9th : International Anti-corruption day

As the international community strives to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and forge an agenda for economic and social progress in...

Abolish the death penalty – It is a better word without it

Oct 10th: 10th World Day against the Death Penalty.  

Deep concern for Honduras

The impunity available for murder means the surrender of the rule of law in favour of unchecked violence. A first step in the right direction...

Antonio Cluny about Death penalty in USA

I am here today not because of my activist work against death penalty, but because I am representing a NGO that aggregates over eight...

Imprisonment of Judge Afiuni in Venezuela

Ankara, 3 July 2010 Declaration of MEDEL about Judge Maria de Lourdes Afiuni from Venezuela On December 2009 judge Maria Lourdes Mora Afiuni was arrested in...

The United States defy the rule of law on European soil

March, 7th 2007 The public opinion is well informed on the existence of a number of covert, illegal actions carried out on European soil by...

Declaration on Iraq War – Justice, not War!

October, 2005. As European judges and prosecutors, we are deeply concerned about the war that United State, United Kingdom and their allies have declared to...

Crisis in Ecuador

Revocation by the National Assembly of 27 judges (of 31) of the Supreme Court of Justice. Constitutional crisis and change of government. Mission report conducted...

Medel statement on torture in Iraq

March, 2007 Abduction and detention in illegal prisons have nothing to do with international judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters; they rather represent outright...

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