「帰国事業」訴訟、北朝鮮への賠償命令認めるか? 判決は1月26日
日本の裁判所が、北朝鮮政府に損害賠償を命じる判断を下すのか。原告側が「国連報告書でも紹介され、注目を集めている」と意義づける裁判が開かれた。 原告は1959~84年に在日朝鮮人ら約9万3000人が北朝鮮に渡った「帰国 […]
"IOM, the UN’s migration agency, is claiming UN immunity to justify its refusal to release documents about its EU-funded Assisted Voluntary Returns and Reintegration (AVRR) programme in Greece.
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Chris Jones, executive director at the pro-transparency NGO Statewatch, said IOM’s position was a “structural absurdity”.
“International organisations are now carrying out what are, in effect, sensitive state functions,” he told The New Humanitarian. “Yet they remain insulated from the very accountability mechanisms that supposedly bind states.”"
Full story: IOM uses UN immunity to avoid scrutiny of Greek returns