Turkey: ICJ and IBAHRI call for release of Osman Kavala following European...
Today’s decision from the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Turkish human rights defender Osman Kavala must be immediately complied with by releasing him from detention, the International...
View ArticleThailand: ICJ co-hosts workshop on extrajudicial killings in the context of...
On 17 December 2019, the ICJ co-hosted a discussion on extrajudicial killings in Thailand and the lack of progress in investigations of these killings, with an emphasis on the killings of ethnic,...
View ArticlePhilippines: court verdict on Ampatuan massacre a step forward for...
The ICJ said that today’s verdict by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court on the “Ampatuan Massacre” is a first step in achieving justice for the victims and their families. The court found guilty...
View ArticleCambodia: Spurious “treason” charges against opposition leader Kem Sokha must...
Today, following the commencement of the trial of political opposition leader Kem Sokha, the ICJ condemned his continuing legal harassment and called on the Government of Cambodia to drop the...
View ArticleIndonesia: ICJ holds seminar on eliminating gender discriminatory practices...
From 16 to 17 January 2020, the ICJ, in collaboration with the National Police Commission (KOMPOLNAS), UN Women, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)...
View ArticleKazakhstan: ICJ observes hearing in lawyer’s disbarment case
Today, the ICJ has conducted a trial observation in disbarment proceedings against lawyer Yerlan Gazymzhanov before the Saryarkyn Court of Nur-Sultan. Erlan Gazymzhanov is facing disbarment following a...
View ArticleSri Lanka: President’s remarks on “missing persons” are an affront to victims
The ICJ expressed alarm about comments made by Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa which offensively mischaracterized the situation of “missing persons” in Sri Lanka, many of whom have been the...
View ArticleKazakhstan: ICJ observes disbarment case against the head of the Lawyer’s...
Today, the ICJ has observed the trial in court proceedings against lawyer Amanzhol Mukhamediarov before the Yesil District Court in Nur-Sultan. Mukhamediarov, Chair of the Committee on the rights of...
View ArticlePoland: judges and lawyers from around the world condemn rapidly escalating...
ICJ Commissioners and Honorary Members today denounced the rapidly escalating rule of law crisis in Poland, after a new law was passed that would result in harassment of judges upholding the...
View ArticleICJ submission to the UN Human Rights Committee on Tunisia
The ICJ has made a submission to the UN Human Rights Committee in advance of its forthcoming examination of Tunisia’s sixth periodic report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political...
View ArticleThe Russian Federation: ICJ urges investigation of Chechnya attack on a...
The ICJ expresses concern at today’s physical assault of a lawyer and a journalist, who arrived in Grozny to take part in the trial of blogger Islam Nukhanov. The ICJ called on the authorities of the...
View ArticleZimbabwe: ICJ holds anti-corruption judicial workshop
The ICJ, in collaboration with the Zimbabwe Judicial Service Commission (JSC), convened an Anti-Corruption workshop from 27-30 January 2020. The objective was to enhance the capacity of judicial and...
View ArticleMyanmar: ICJ hosts workshop on fair trial rights for journalists from across...
The ICJ conducted a workshop for journalists on fair trial rights and due process on 9 February 2020 in Yangon to help them respond to situations of arrest and prosecution Some 25 journalists across...
View ArticleGuatemala: ICJ conducts workshops on the investigation and prosecution of...
The ICJ convened two workshops in Guatemala City from 11 to 13 February for more than 30 lawyers and more than 30 representatives of victims’ organizations on the international law and standards that...
View ArticleBenin: ICJ convenes training and judicial dialogue for implementation of...
From 12-13 February, the ICJ, in collaboration with the Supreme Court of the Republic of Benin and the African Association of the Francophone Higher Jurisdictions, hosted regional judicial dialogue and...
View ArticleTurkey : IBAHRI and ICJ observe criminal trial on “Gezi Park” protests
The ICJ and the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) have jointly sent an international observer to attend the third hearing of the criminal trial on the “Gezi Park” protest...
View ArticleTurkey: ICJ and IBAHRI urge Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors to...
The ICJ and the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) urge the Turkish Council of Judges and Prosecutors (CJP) to stop their investigation into the three judges of the...
View ArticleKazakhstan: disbarment of Erlan Gazymzhanov and Amanzhol Mukhamediarov...
The ICJ expresses concern at the decisions of 26 February of Yesil and Saryarka district courts of Nur-Sultan to disbar two lawyers, Erlan Gazymzhanov and Amanzhol Mukhamediarov, at the request of the...
View ArticleCanada: Supreme Court affirms that Eritreans can seek redress against...
The ICJ today welcomed the judgement of the Canadian Supreme Court in the Case of Araya v, Nevsun, which allows a civil lawsuit by a group of Eritrean plaintiffs to proceed against Canadian company...
View ArticleMyanmar: ICJ hosts Minnesota Protocol workshop with lawyers on investigating...
The ICJ hosted a two-day workshop on 29 February and 1 March 2020 in Yangon, Myanmar entitled “Workshop on the Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death.” Some 25 lawyers...
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