ICJ hosts side event on accountability for crimes under international law in...
Today, the ICJ held a side event titled “Accountability for crimes under international law in Libya: Challenges and Prospects” during the 40th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The...
View ArticleICJ hosts two day anti-corruption training workshop in Zimbabwe
The ICJ in partnership with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) convened a two day training workshop to build the capacity of Chief prosecutors and Senior management to effectively investigate...
View ArticleICJ launches legal aid clinic in Zimbabwe
Today, the ICJ launched a legal aid clinic project in collaboration with Great Zimbabwe University, Herbert Chitepo Law School to help facilitate the establishment of a legal aid clinic at the...
View ArticleZimbabwe: ICJ launches legal aid clinic project
Today, the ICJ launched a project at Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University intended to assist with legal services to those in need in Bindura. The legal aid clinics project, which is supported by the...
View ArticleThailand: ICJ Workshop promotes standards applying to investigations of...
From 29 to 31 March 2019, the ICJ co-hosted a workshop in Ayutthaya province for authorities from Thailand on Human Rights, Investigation Techniques and Forensic Examination of Evidence. The event...
View ArticleSingapore: Parliament must reject internet regulation bill that threatens...
Today, the ICJ urged Singapore’s Parliament not to pass the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill 2019 (‘Online Falsehoods Bill’), which was tabled on Monday, 1 April. The ICJ said...
View ArticleICJ Congress 2019: the Tunis Declaration, Video
At the 19th World Congress of the ICJ held in Tunisia on 23-24 March, some 100 distinguished judges, lawyers came together to adopt the Tunis Declaration on Reinforcing the Rule of Law. The Declaration...
View ArticleICJ Commissioner Mikiko Otani addresses Philippine lawyers on gender equality...
On 31 March, Mikiko Otani, ICJ’s Commissioner and a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, spoke to Filipino lawyers at the bi-annual National Lawyers’ Conference of the Integrated Bar...
View ArticleTurkey: ICJ holds workshop on the implementation of European Court judgments
Today in Ankara the ICJ convened a workshop for lawyers and civil society practitioners on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human rights. The 29 participants in the workshop...
View ArticleUkraine: criminal proceedings against lawyer Andriy Domanskyi raise concerns
Today, the ICJ expressed concern at the criminal proceedings against Andriy Domanskyi, a lawyer practicing in Ukraine, known for representing individuals facing political prosecution and defending...
View ArticleSingapore: ICJ calls on government not to adopt online regulation bill in...
The ICJ sent a letter urging Singapore’s government to refrain from passing into law the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill 2019 (‘Online Falsehoods Bill’) in its current form. The...
View ArticleThailand: End prosecution of civilians in military courts and repeal or amend...
Today, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) submitted recommendations to the Council of the State calling for the repeal or amendment of National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) and Head of...
View ArticleICJ publishes recommendations on the role and independence of lawyers in...
The recommendations published today follow the Conference on the Independence of the Legal profession held by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the Council of Europe (CoE) Office in Baku...
View Article18th ICJ World Congress opened in Tunis
Some 100 distinguished judges and lawyers from around the world commit to expanding the reach of human rights and rule of law principles, in the face of a global backlash against human rights values....
View ArticleTunisia: Statement from the organisations of the Coalition of transitional...
The statement alerts the public of the danger of a bill which dismantles the specialized criminal chambers in Tunisia and replaces them with an institution which would guarantee impunity for those who...
View ArticleICJ calls on states to address Tanzanian human rights at upcoming UNHRC session
The ICJ has joined with more than 35 other international and African NGOs, calling on states to address the ongoing deterioration of the human rights situation in Tanzania, at the upcoming session of...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Government must act to protect religious minorities against violence
The ICJ today condemned a series of the acts of violence directed against the Muslim community in the aftermath of the Easter attacks on 21 April in Sri Lanka directed at churches and other places. In...
View ArticleTajikistan: ICJ concludes mission on the independence, organisation and...
The ICJ concluded a research mission on the independence of the judiciary in Tajikistan on 3 May. Following the mission, the ICJ expressed concerns about the independence of individual judges as well...
View ArticleNGOs Submission Ahead of the Third Biennial Report of the UN...
Ahead of the 2020 review of the human rights treaty body system, the ICJ, together with a number of NGO partners, have made a joint submission to the UN Secretary-General ahead of his third and last...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Sergey Sizintsev’s disbarment is contrary to the law and should...
Following the decision of the Petropavlovsk Court to disbar Sergey Sizintsev the former Executive Director of the National Bar Association, the ICJ reiterates its concerns at the unjustified...
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