Eswatini: ICJ and partner organization launch guide to reporting gender-based...
To assist in efforts to combat gender-based violence, the ICJ and Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse (SWAGAA) collaborated to create a guide on reporting gender-based violence for media practitioners...
View ArticleSingapore: impending executions must be stopped
Singapore’s authorities should immediately halt the impending executions of Syed Suhail bin Syed Zin (‘Syed’) and Moad Fadzir bin Mostaffa (‘Fadzir’), and should place a moratorium on further...
View ArticleLesotho: ICJ webinar highlights adverse impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on the...
On 24 September 2020, the ICJ held a webinar in collaboration with the Lesotho National Federation of Organisations of the Disabled on the right to education for children with disabilities. Presenters...
View ArticleNational online-training on international law on economic, social and...
Today, the ICJ, the Regional office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for Central Asia and the Supreme School of Judges of the Republic of Uzbekistan (SSJ) are beginning a national...
View ArticleSingapore: ICJ Submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
On 12 October 2020, the ICJ made a submission to the Human Rights Council’s Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review in advance of the Human Rights Council’s review of Singapore in May 2021. In...
View ArticleBelarus: revoke disbarment of lawyer Aleksandr Pylchenko
The ICJ calls on the Belarus authorities to revoke the disbarment of lawyer Aleksandr Pylchenko and to end harassment or other interference with the work of lawyers in the country. His disbarment...
View ArticleTurkey: Dismissal of judges and prosecutors fundamentally unfair
The ICJ condemned the dismissal of eight judges and three prosecutors by Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors (CJP) on 14 October 2020, for alleged membership of or connections with the Gülenist...
View ArticleThailand: Lifting of Serious Emergency Situation in Bangkok is welcome, but...
The ICJ today published a legal briefing analyzing the implementation of Thailand’s Emergency Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situation B.E. 2548 (2005) in response to protests in 2020....
View ArticleTargeting the last line of defense: Egypt’s attacks against lawyers – new...
The ICJ and the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) call on the Egyptian authorities to immediately end their crackdown on lawyers and unconditionally release all lawyers who are detained...
View ArticleICJ/Cordaid Webinar Series addresses the need for equal access to justice for...
On 21 and 22 October, the ICJ and Cordaid held a webinar series aimed at tackling the challenges of protecting and promoting women’s human rights and access to justice for women in the context of...
View ArticleCambodia: ICJ and 56 organizations call on authorities to release journalists...
Today, the ICJ and 56 civil society organizations called for an end to attacks on independent media by the Royal Government of Cambodia (“RGC”). Amidst an increasingly repressive landscape, the...
View ArticleICJ calls on States to act seriously and purposefully towards progress in...
As the sixth session if the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group (OEWG) working on a draft treaty convenes, the ICJ welcomes the Revised Draft treaty and calls on States to work to overcome...
View ArticleIndia: Repressive law on foreign contributions stifles NGOs – must be revised...
India’s Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, (FCRA) is unlawfully obstructing the critical work of non-governmental organizations in India, the ICJ said in a briefing paper released today. The...
View ArticleLibya must end systematic impunity and investigate the killing of lawyer and...
The ICJ, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), the Defender Center for Human Rights (DCHR), Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL) and the Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP) have...
View ArticlePeru: Congress’ ouster of President Vizcarra sets off crisis of rule of law
The removal of Peru’s President Martin Vizcarra by the country’s Congress has undermined respect for the principle of separation of powers and precipitated a rule of law crisis, the International...
View ArticleZimbabwe: ICJ publishes a legal brief on needed reform of sexual offences
Today, the ICJ published The case for reform: Criminal Law and Sexual Violence in Zimbabwe, a legal brief which examines sexual crimes in the Zimbabwean Criminal Code in light of the country’s...
View ArticlePoland: prosecution must stop arbitrary proceedings against Judge Igor Tuleya
The ICJ today denounced the renewed threat of criminal proceedings by prosecutorial authorities against Judge Igor Tuleya on charges arising from the judge’s independent exercise of his judicial...
View ArticleThailand: Need protect the right to health of the most marginalized...
The ICJ, human rights advocates and other experts emphasized the State obligation to protect that right to health of all persons without discrimination at a public seminar held on 10 November 2020. The...
View ArticleThailand: ICJ co-hosts event for civil society and State officials on the...
On 12-13 November 2020, the ICJ co-hosted a discussion on “Thailand’s National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights: 1-Year Progress Review” in Bangkok. The forum was co-organized with other 11...
View ArticleConcern over arrest of lawyers in South East Turkey
The ICJ expressed today its deep concern at the arrest of some 26 lawyers and the investigation of around 100, including lawyers active in the defence of human rights, in South East Turkey. The arrests...
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