ICJ and others challenge Hungary’s removals to Serbia before European Court...
The ICJ and other organizations have intervened today before the European Court of Human Rights challenging expulsions of asylum seekers from Hungary to Serbia. The International Commission of Jurists...
View ArticleRussian Federation: police actions against a Chechen human rights defender...
The ICJ is concerned at allegations that the recent arrest and detention of Ayub Titiyev, the head of the Chechen branch of the Russian human rights organisation Memorial, were carried out as...
View ArticleTunisia: respect and protect the right to freedom of assembly
Tunisian authorities must respect and protect the right to freedom of assembly and of expression of everyone in Tunisia, the ICJ said today. They also must regulate the use of force against protestors...
View ArticleNepal: Implement Supreme Court Ruling on Protecting the Rights of LGBTI Persons
On the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Sunil Babu Pant on the protection of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI), the ICJ calls on the...
View ArticleMorocco: ensure effective investigation and prosecution of sexual and gender...
The ICJ today called on the Moroccan authorities to effectively investigate and prosecute sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) offences, including by ensuring the rights of victims to effective...
View ArticlePhilippines: actions against Rappler, Inc. threaten freedom of expression
The ICJ today expressed concern about the impacts on freedom of expression of a decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that would shut down Rappler, an online news source in the...
View ArticleInternational Commission of Jurists visited Carbones del Cerrejón in Colombia...
From 9-13 December, a delegation from the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) visited the company Carbones del Cerrejón LLC (El Cerrejón) to analyse the operation and effectiveness of its...
View ArticlePakistan: widespread practice of enforced disappearance must be addressed
The ICJ today called on the Government of Pakistan to take immediate measures against the increasing practice of enforced disappearances in the country. A significant number of recent victims were said...
View ArticleMyanmar: ‘Terrorist’ list publications defy rule of law principles and put...
Myanmar’s publication in state media of lists with the names and accompanying photographs of more than 1,400 men, women and children under the heading “Members of ARSA Terrorist Group” constitutes an...
View ArticlePhilippines: proposed constitutional amendment a threat to freedoms of...
The ICJ today expressed its concern that a constitutional amendment under consideration by the House of Representatives’ Committee on Constitutional Amendments would, if adopted, severely restrict the...
View ArticleMaldives: Supreme Court decision reversing its order to release political...
The judgment yesterday by three Supreme judges of a rump Supreme Court that overturned order of the full Supreme Court to release nine members of opposition political parties lacks legitimacy, the ICJ...
View ArticlePhilippines: new public assembly act inconsistent with human rights
A proposed new law regulating public assembly adopted by the Philippine House of Representatives would allow for unlawful restrictions on the right to peaceful assembly, the ICJ said today. On 5...
View ArticleICJ mourns the loss of human rights icon Asma Jahangir
The ICJ mourns the loss of its former Commissioner, Executive Committee Member and Honorary Member, Asma Jahangir, who was at the frontline of the struggle for the rule of law and human rights in...
View ArticleNepal: justice proving elusive – human rights NGOs
The one-year extensions of Nepal’s two transitional justice mechanisms without necessary legal and institutional reforms ordered by the Supreme Court and the United Nations, are insufficient to comply...
View ArticleICJ and others challenge Hungary’s removals to Serbia before European Court...
The ICJ and other organizations have intervened today before the European Court of Human Rights challenging expulsions of asylum seekers from Hungary to Serbia. The International Commission of Jurists...
View ArticleThailand: ICJ lectures on international human rights law at Thaksin University
Today, the ICJ addressed an academic seminar on the topic of “Public interest and the anti-strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP)”. It was organized by Thaksin University’s Faculty of...
View ArticleUzbekistan: ICJ visits Tashkent to begin work on economic and social rights
From 12 to 14 February, representatives the ICJ visited Uzbekistan as the first step in a new programme of work on access to justice in the area of economic, social and cultural rights. During the...
View ArticleMorocco: remove obstacles to access to the Constitutional Court – new ICJ memo
In a memo published today, the ICJ called on the Moroccan authorities to refrain from signing into Law Draft Organic Law No. 86.15 on access to the Constitutional Court with a view to amending it and...
View ArticleMaldives: authorities must end assault on the legal profession
As the assault on the rule of law and human rights under the state of emergency in the Maldives continues, the ICJ expressed concerned about government reprisals taken against lawyers for performing...
View ArticleSyria and Russia: end attacks on Eastern Ghouta now
The ICJ today called on the governments of Syria and Russia to cease all attacks on the civilian population in Eastern Ghouta. Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population and...
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