Thailand: ICJ Seminar to advance women’s access to justice and human rights...
The ICJ recently organized a Legal Seminar for Thai Lawyers and Women Human Rights Defenders on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women....
View ArticleEgypt: ICJ condemns further mass death sentences
The ICJ strongly condemns two rulings by the Minya Criminal Court issued today. In the first ruling, the court convicted and sentenced to death 683 individuals. Charges included killing a police...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: the ICJ welcomes new investigation into the case against human...
The ICJ today welcomed the decision of Oktyabrskiy Court of Bishkek to reopen the investigation in the case against Azimzhan Askarov. The prominent human rights defender was arrested immediately after...
View ArticleASEAN lawyers to work towards stronger human rights safeguards
More than 40 delegates from nine countries attended a regional workshop for ASEAN lawyers in Bangkok April 28-30 on the promotion and protection of the rights of human rights defenders. The workshop...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: lawyer Dinara Turdumatova must be protected following physical...
The ICJ has expressed serious concern at credible allegations of a physical attack on lawyer Dinara Turdumatova on 1 May and possible disciplinary action to cancel her license to practice law. The...
View ArticleICJ concludes mission to Peru to assess social rights in the agro-export...
An ICJ Mission to assess the respect of social rights in the Peruvian agro-export industry concluded a field visit to the country with bleak preliminary conclusions. The Mission of observers, which...
View ArticleTunisia: Reforms should be adopted to strengthen the independence and...
The ICJ today called on the Tunisian authorities to build on the advances made in the January 2014 Constitution by introducing legal and policy reforms to ensure the Tunisian judiciary is fully...
View ArticleEl Salvador: ICJ participates in UN review of El Salvador’s performance in...
The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has just finalized its review of El Salvador, one of the State parties under examination during the 52nd session of the Committee held between...
View ArticleThailand: effective investigation of enforced disappearance of Somchai...
The Supreme Court of Thailand today rejected hearing crucial phone evidence in the case against five police officers who have been accused of subjecting prominent Thai lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit to...
View ArticleICJ and ECRE third submission on the implementation of M.S.S. judgment
The ICJ and ECRE presented a third joint detailed submission on the new asylum service and appeals system and the situation of detention of asylum seekers in Greece to the Committee of Ministers of the...
View ArticleRussian Federation: ICJ expresses concern at court judgment ordering...
The ICJ today expressed its concern at the judgment of the Novocherkassk City Court of Rostov Region of 14 May 2014, ordering the NGO “Women of Don”, to register as a foreign agent. The order was made...
View ArticleProposed Arab Court of Human Rights: an empty vessel without substantial...
27 Human rights groups, including the ICJ have signed a statement calling upon the League of Arab State’s (LAS) member States to substantially revise the draft statute of the Arab Court of Human Rights...
View ArticleLao PDR: government must tackle enforced disappearance case
The ICJ today called on the Lao PDR government to carry out a thorough and impartial investigation into the ‘disappearance’ of prominent development activist Sombath Somphone to clarify his fate or...
View ArticleLaunch of country profiles on independence of judges, prosecutors and lawyers
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (CIJL) has launched the first in a series of Country Profiles, a new online tool on the ICJ’s website. Profiles on Myanmar, the Russian...
View ArticleMorocco: ICJ concludes mission on access to justice for social rights
An ICJ delegation including ICJ Commissioners Justice Philippe Texier and Professor Olivier De Schutter concluded a one-week mission in Morocco to discuss access to justice for social rights in the...
View ArticleEgypt: military, government and politicized judiciary are crushing freedom of...
The ICJ deplores the wave of recent decisions by Egyptian officials and courts that aim to silence journalists, human rights defenders, political activists and all those suspected of opposing the...
View ArticleICJ and others intervene in UK rendition complicity case
On 30 June, the International Commission of Jurists, together with JUSTICE, Amnesty International and REDRESS, filed a third party intervention with the Court of Appeal in the case Abdul-Hakim Belhaj...
View ArticleKazakhstan: ICJ is concerned at new detention of lawyer Zinaida Mukhortova
The ICJ today expressed serious concern at the reported apprehension and placement in a psychiatric facility of lawyer Zinaida Mukhortova. The detention appears to be arbitrary and aimed at harassment...
View ArticlePreocupación por la cancelación de la residencia temporal a dos voluntarios...
Comisión Internacional de Juristas (CIJ) expresa su honda preocupación por la cancelación de las visas a dos voluntarios de las Brigadas Internacionales de Paz. Descargar: Guatemala-Visa-Brigadas de...
View ArticlePakistan: newly enacted counter-terrorism law endangers human rights
The Protection of Pakistan Act 2014 signed today by the President will aggravate human rights violations in the country instead of helping to protect Pakistani people from attacks by armed groups, the...
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