GICJ positions and opinions

International Day of Rural Women - 15 October

The 15 October 2017 celebrates the 9th year of the International Day of Rural Women. This international day was founded ...

International Day of Peace - 21 September

The International Day of Peace , observed on September 21 of each year, seeks to put an end to the ...

International Literacy Day – 8 September

Literacy is a tool of empowerment, of development and positive change on an individual and collective basis. It is an ...

Razing the Truth About Sanctions Against Iraq

A “spectacular lie” – this is how an August 4, 2017 article in the Washington Post1 called UNICEF’s 1999 finding ...

Abuses Against Rohingya are Understated by Annan Report

The humanitarian deterioration in Myanmar, particularly the widespread and systematic human rights violations against Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state, ...

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition - 23 August

In resolution 29 C/40 during the 29th session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) General Conference ...

GICJ Statement on Recent Attack on Tal-Afar

Tal-Afar is a city situated towards the west of Mosul in the Ninawa Province of Iraq that has seen a ...

World Humanitarian Day - 19 August

When bombs are falling from the sky, houses collapsing, dams breaking, and crops dying, humanitarian aid workers rush to the ...

Jeopardizing UNAMI’s Credibility

Geneva International Centre for Justice (GICJ) expresses deep dismay at the recent visit by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General ...

The Plight of Rohingya in Myanmar is Ignored

The humanitarian deterioration in Myanmar, particularly widespread and systematic human rights violations against Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state, remain ...