Thailand: Law governing the development of the Eastern Economic Corridor must...
“The evaluation of Thailand’s Eastern Special Development Zone Act B.E. 2561 (2018) (‘EEC Act’) in 2024 must be carried out with meaningful participation from all stakeholders, and ensure compliance...
View ArticleSoutheast Asia: governments must act to counter abusive lawsuits brought by...
“Business enterprises continue to use their clout to nullify the work of human rights and public interest advocates through abusive lawsuits (SLAPPs) and far more needs to be done by governments to...
View ArticleTurkey: Effective use of international human rights mechanisms in...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in partnership with the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBA) Environment Law Commission and the Human Rights Joint Platform (IHOP), successfully...
View ArticleVietnam: Stop the arbitrary arrest and detention of environmental human...
Today, the ICJ and nine other human rights and environmental organizations express grave concern over the recent arbitrary arrest, detention, and silencing of several environmental human rights...
View ArticleECtHR: V.M. v Poland Intervention in a case concerning immigration detention...
On 19 June 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), and the AIRE Centre have submitted a joint third-party intervention before the...
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EU: Lawyers Exploring Strategic Human Rights Litigation on Judicial Independence
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and its partners (Human Rights in Practice, Free Courts, aditus and Forum for Human Rights) organized a workshop on Institutional independence of the...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Assailants who violently attacked human rights lawyer Obey Shava...
The ICJ condemns the violent attacks on human rights lawyer, Obey Shava, who was severely beaten on 5 July by four unidentified assailants, leaving him with serious injuries, including broken legs. The...
View ArticleZimbabwe: ICJ welcomes the acquittal of Joana Mamombe and Cecelia Revai...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) welcomes the judgment of the Harare High Court which has acquitted human rights activists Joana Mamombe and Cecelia Revai Chimbiri following their arrest...
View ArticleTajikistan: Lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov must immediately be released in line with...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has renewed its call for the immediate release of expressed deep concern over the recent additional sentencing of imprisoned Tajik lawyer following the...
View ArticleEuropean Court of Human Rights: ICJ welcomes a landmark decision upholding...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) applauds the European Court οf Human Rights judgement of 6 July 2023 in the case of Tuleya v Poland which effectively affirms the need for Poland to change...
View ArticleMalaysia: International Commission of Jurists’ submission to the Universal...
On 18 July 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) made a submission to the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in advance of its review of...
View ArticleChina: International Commission of Jurists and its partner make submission to...
On 18 July 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Extra-Territorial Obligation Watch Coalition (ETO Watch Coalition) filed a joint submission to the UN Human Rights Council Working...
View ArticleBelarus: lawyer Yuliya Yurgilevich and journalist Pavel Mazheika unjustly...
Today, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has condemned the unjust conviction and sentencing of prominent Belarus lawyer, Yuliya Yurgilevich, and journalist, Pavel Mazheika, to six years’...
View ArticleThailand: Workshop with Ministry of Justice tackles the imperative of...
On 20 – 21 July 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) co-organized a workshop, with Thailand’s Ministry of Justice, on ensuring the protection of human rights in the online sphere under...
View ArticleUzbekistan: ICJ Launches “Summer School” on Economic, Social, and Cultural...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in collaboration with the Nationwide Movement “Yuksalish” and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Regional Office for Central Asia...
View ArticleThailand: Legal and practical barriers frustrate access to effective remedies...
“The Thai authorities must act to remove obstacles to holding Thai companies accountable for wrongdoing outside the country’s borders,” urged participants at a dialogue co-hosted by the International...
View ArticleICJ makes submission to Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the human...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) recently submitted written legal comments to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in relation to...
View ArticlePhilippines: ICJ makes submission to the Committee on the Elimination of...
On 6 September 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) made a submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the implementation of the Convention on the...
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Nepal: Prime Minister, victims’ groups and other stakeholders agree that...
At a National Conference organized on 4 September by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in collaboration with Advocacy Forum, Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) committed...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Serious human rights violations call into question the legitimacy...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has condemned the widespread human rights violations reported by election observers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and human rights defenders which...
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