The Human Rights Situation in the Russian Federation (UN side event)
For decades within its own borders, Russian authorities have undermined and attacked independent civil society, persecuted human rights defenders, activists, lawyers, and opposition and dissenting...
View ArticleNepal: ICJ launches mentorship program for lawyers on the right to education
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in partnership with the Economic, Social and Cultural National Network/Justice & Rights Institute Nepal (JuRI-Nepal), the Public Interest Litigation...
View ArticleTurkey: Confirmation of conviction of human rights defender Osman Kavala and...
The prosecution of the rights defender and businessman Osman Kavala and four codefendants in connection with mass protests a decade ago has been unfair and essentially a political show trial from the...
View ArticleVietnam: ICJ makes submission to the Universal Periodic Review
On 11 October 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 ArticleCambodia: ICJ makes two submissions to the Universal Periodic Review
On 11 October 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) made two submissions to the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in advance of its review of...
View ArticleNepal: Judges and Prosecutors consider how to fulfill their roles in ensuring...
Judges and Prosecutors in Nepal have taken up the challenge to step up their efforts to ensure that victims and survivors of human rights violations are able effectively to access justice. At a...
View ArticleRussian Federation: End Persecution of Alexei Navalny’s Defence Lawyers
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) condemns the arbitrary detention and criminal prosecution of three lawyers who had been defending the prominent opposition figure, Alexei Navalny. “These...
View ArticleKenya: ICJ, Validity Foundation and UDPK promote the use of strategic...
At a workshop convened on 11 and 12 October, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Validity Foundation, and the United Disabled Persons of Kenya (UDPK) stepped up efforts to promote the...
View ArticleLesotho: Magistrates and judges unpack their role in protecting and promoting...
On 11 and 12 October 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), People’s Matrix Association and Seinoli Legal Centre (SLC) jointly held a workshop for magistrates and judges in Maseru,...
View ArticleICJ makes submission on the decriminalization of homelessness and extreme...
On 5 October, in response to a call for input from the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing and the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty, the International Commission of Jurists...
View ArticleSubmission by the ICJ to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) made a submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in view of the Committee’s examination of the Combined Ninth to Eleventh...
View ArticleTurkey: Release Politicians Wrongfully Detained for 7 Years. Former Deputies...
(Istanbul, November 3, 2023) – The Turkish government should abide by international law and implement the binding judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) by immediately releasing...
View ArticleTajikistan: Round Table on the Application of International Law in Judicial...
Today, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in collaboration with the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tajikistan the Office of the High Commission of Human Rights (OHCHR) Regional Office for...
View ArticleThe African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ judgment of 22 September...
Today, the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR) opens its 71st Ordinary Session. To mark the occasion, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in collaboration with inkyfada,...
View ArticlePakistan: The ICJ Denounces the Expulsion of Afghan Nationals Noting the...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) strongly condemns the Government of Pakistan’s decision to expel over 1.4 million Afghan nationals, including unregistered refugees, forcibly removing them...
View ArticleThailand: Law on the development of the Eastern Economic Corridor should be...
“The law governing the development of Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) must be evaluated and revised to address concerns raised by local communities, and align with Thailand’s international...
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EU: Protecting Judicial Independence: Lawyers’ strategic litigation workshop
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in collaboration with aditus, Human Rights in Practice, Forum for Human Rights, Free Courts organized a workshop for lawyers on judicial independence and...
View ArticleThailand: Exchange of best practices from Latin America on litigating...
On 29 November 2023, the ICJ co-hosted a dialogue among Thai lawyers, academics, and Santiago A. Canton, Secretary General of the ICJ to exchange best practices from Latin America, specifically...
View ArticleThailand: Authorities must do more to ensure access to justice and effective...
The conclusion drawn at a workshop hosted by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Thailand’s Ministry of Justice on 30 November and 1 December 2023, in Ayutthaya province, was that...
View ArticlePhilippines: Public prosecutors are critical to protecting human rights in...
On 5 – 6 December 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) co-organized a workshop, with the Department of Justice (DOJ) of the Philippines, on ensuring the protection of human rights in the...
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