Thailand: Indigenous communities face hardship during Covid-19 pandemic
Indigenous communities in Thailand described the particular hardship they have faced during the Covid-19 pandemic in a discussion with Thai government officials, United Nations representatives and...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Scrapping of discriminatory provisions against non-citizens in...
Today the Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), applauded the removal of discriminatory provisions in an updated...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Judges must be left alone to make their own independent decisions...
The ICJ today expressed its concern regarding the recent seminar convened by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) at which magistrates and other judicial officers were reportedly instructed to use...
View ArticleEU/India: The EU must break its silence on India’s human rights record
Ahead of the informal meeting of the European Union (EU) Foreign Ministers in Slovenia in September, ICJ along with other international human rights organizations, wrote an open letter to the EU High...
View ArticleIndia: Spyware Use Violates Supreme Court Privacy Ruling
Indian authorities should immediately, independently, and credibly investigate the government’s alleged use of advanced spyware to target activists and apparent opponents, ICJ and other groups said...
View ArticleSpain : Supreme Court should act quickly to reinstate Judge Baltasar Garzon...
The ICJ called today on the Spanish Supreme Court to move expeditiously to revise and quash the conviction of Judge Baltasar Garzon for abuse of power and to reinstate him in the judiciary, after the...
View ArticleMENA: Enforced disappearances and accompanying impunity continue to prevail
Today, on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, we the 33 undersigned local, regional, and international organizations, associations, and networks come...
View ArticleSri Lanka: COVID-19 restrictions should not undermine freedom of expression
The Sri Lankan Government must stop harassing and threatening journalists, government officials, doctors and social media users with legal actions for criticizing the State response to COVID-19, said...
View ArticleYemen: States should support accountability for crimes under international law
Joint Civil Society Letter: States should support accountability for crimes under international law committed in Yemen at the 48th Session of the Human Rights Council هذه الرسالة متوفرة باللغة العربية...
View ArticleTurkey: Council of Europe Committee should trigger infringement proceedings
The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers should trigger infringement proceedings against Turkey at its September 14-16, 2021 meeting for its failure to implement the European Court of Human Rights’...
View ArticleUN Human Rights Council: Renew Libya Fact-Finding Mission’s Mandate
United Nations Human Rights Council member states, including Libya, should continue to support the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya by renewing its mandate during its 48th session, which began...
View ArticleEU: Civil society recommendations on the European Commission’s Rule of Law...
The European Commission needs to improve its annual rule of law report and the process leading to it, in order to effectively address the rule of law breakdowns in some EU Member States, the...
View ArticleICJ and ICJ-Switzerland intervene in key climate change case before the...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Swiss Section of the ICJ have submitted a third party intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in a case against Switzerland...
View ArticleNepal: ICJ workshop highlights the role of legal aid providers on eliminating...
Nepal’s judiciary must overcome gender stereotypes to improve women’s access to justice in the country, said participants at a workshop organized by the ICJ and the Supreme Court Bar Association’s...
View ArticleThailand: ICJ and Amnesty International submit recommendations on draft law...
Thailand’s parliament should amend the draft law on torture and enforced disappearance without delay in order to ensure compliance with Thailand’s international legal obligations, said the ICJ and...
View ArticleUN Human Rights Council takes a great step forward in advancing the right to...
The ICJ today applauded the adoption of a landmark resolution by the UN Human Rights Council recognizing the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and a second resolution and...
View ArticleTunisia: workshop addresses adjudication of SGB crimes before Specialized...
The investigation and adjudication of sexual and gender-based crimes by the Specialized Criminal Chambers must be victim-oriented and aimed at securing victims’ right to effective remedy while...
View ArticleHuman Right Council: States’ abject failure to renew Yemen investigation is a...
Civil society organizations condemn and express their profound disappointment at the United Nations Human Rights Council’s decision to discontinue the mandate of the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen....
View ArticleThailand: ICJ co-hosts workshop on investigating unlawful killings and torture
Thai authorities discussed how to improve investigations of serious human rights violations during a workshop co-hosted by the ICJ, Thailand’s Ministry of Justice, and the United Nations Office of the...
View ArticleEU: Migrant children should be treated first and foremost as children,...
Unaccompanied migrant children should have access to the same mainstream child-care system as national children, said experts during a workshops held by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)...
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