The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission will organize a Side-Event at the occasion of the first session of the Human Rights Council on Thursday, 22 June 2006.
The Commission undertook a promotional mission to South-East Asia from 7 to 17 May 2006.
At the occasion of their annual meeting 2006, the Members of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission have elected their first Vice-President Professor Ghalib Djilali as their new President in replacement of Sir Kenneth Keith.
A delegation of the IHFFC have undertaken a promotional mission to New York, US.
The members of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission and its Secretariat, would like to warmly congratulate Sir Kenneth Keith on his brilliant election as a member of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Japan is the 68th State to have accepted the Competence of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission.
On 24 May 2004, the Government of Burkina Faso recognised the competence of the IHFFC, becoming the 67th State to do so.
On 16 April 2004, the Government of the Republic of Korea recognised the competence of the IHFFC. The Republic of Korea is the 66th State to have done so.
A delegation of the IHFFC, including Dr. Ghalib Djiliali, 1st Vice-President, and Ambassador Juan Antonio Yañez Barnuevo, 2nd Vice-President, accompanied by a member of the Secretariat, Mr Daniel Derzic, have undertaken a promotional mission to Cameroon.
Read the intervention in the plenary by Sir Kenneth Keith.
An international conference convened by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) took place in Geneva on action to clarify the fate of people missing as a result of armed conflict and internal violence and to support their families.
The Commission was invited to participate as an observer in the Rome Conference. It was represented by Messrs M. R. Dubouloz and E. Kussbach.
