ICJ conducts training on fair trial standards and trial monitoring for...
On 24-26 September 2014, the ICJ conducted a workshop on fair trial standards and trial monitoring for Vietnamese lawyers in Manila, Philippines. The objectives of the workshop were to strengthen the...
View ArticleLa CIJ pide al Congreso de la República de Guatemala la abolición de la pena...
La CIJ también pide la ratificación del Segundo Protocolo Opcional al Pacto Internacional de Derechos Civiles y Políticos. En el marco de la conmemoración del Día Mundial contra la Pena de Muerte, la...
View ArticleWorkshop to promote women’s human rights in the Southeast Asian judicial system
Judges and representatives from judicial institutes from across Southeast Asia are attending a regional workshop to discuss how they can help counter gender-based violence and gender stereotypes. The...
View ArticlePassing of Dr Rudolf Machacek
It was with great sadness that the ICJ learned of the passing of Dr. Rudolf Machacek who died yesterday, 6 October 2014, at the age of 87. Dr. Machacek was an Honorary Member of the ICJ having...
View ArticleICJ holds strategic litigation meeting with Muslim Attorney Centre in...
On 11-12 October 2014, the ICJ held a “Strategic Litigation” meeting for 25 Muslim Attorney Centre (MAC) lawyers and paralegals in Hat Yai, in Thailand’s deep South. The objective of the meeting was...
View ArticleRussian Federation: ICJ calls for prompt and effective investigation into...
The ICJ today expressed serious concern at the killing of lawyer Vitaliy Moiseyev and his wife Elena Moiseyeva in the Moscow region. The ICJ calls on the investigative and any other relevant...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: quash convictions of lawyers convicted for exercising their...
The ICJ calls for the convictions of Abdulrahman Al-Subaihi, Bandar Al-Nogithan and Abdulrahman Al-Rumaih, three prominent Saudi lawyers, to be quashed and for the Saudi authorities to end their...
View ArticleCourt of Appeal affirms role for domestic courts in UK torture claims
High Court bar on Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Bouchar pursuing claim against UK officials allegedly involved in their abduction and illegal transfer to Libya is overturned. The ICJ, Amnesty...
View ArticleTraining on migration and human rights in Serbia
The ICJ, OSCE and Group 484 are holding a training on migration and international human rights law starting on Monday 3 November in Arandelovac (Serbia). The training has been organised by the...
View ArticleICJ denounces spate of death sentences in Bangladesh
The ICJ deplores that in less than a week, Bangladesh courts ordered the death penalty in three cases. All three condemned men are leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the country’s largest Islamist party...
View ArticleJudges from Southeast Asia discuss deciding cases involving human rights...
For the fist time, about 40 judges and representatives from judicial training institutions across Southeast Asia gathered to discuss recent developments in international human rights law on the right...
View ArticleBulgaria: ICJ observer at Todorova appeal hearing
A trial observer from the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers will observe today the hearing of an appeal of disciplinary sanctions imposed on Bulgarian judge Miroslava Todorova. The...
View ArticleICJ presents its new reports on special economic regimes and their impact on...
On 18 November, the ICJ presented and discussed, in a meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels, its two reports on special economic regimes and their impact on social rights in Peru and Morocco....
View ArticleICJ welcomes General Assembly’s Third Committee’s adoption of resolution on...
The ICJ welcomes the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee’s adoption of resolution A/C.3/69/L.47 on Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on 19 November most recently. The resolution, which...
View ArticleICJ urges Bangladesh to act on long-overdue investigation into alleged...
Bangladesh must immediately launch a thorough investigation into alleged attacks on a prominent human rights lawyer, the ICJ said today. The government appears to have taken no real action in the two...
View ArticleTajikistan: ICJ calls for steps to ensure independence of the legal profession
Following a visit to the country from 15 to 19 November, the ICJ called on the government of Tajikistan to take meaningful steps to ensure that the institutional independence of the legal profession...
View ArticleThe ICJ strongly condemns Malaysia’s decision to retain and strengthen...
The ICJ today strongly condemned the decision by Prime Minister Najib Razak to retain and even strengthen the country’s 1948 Sedition Act despite having made a commitment in 2012 to repeal the Act. The...
View ArticleStrengthening the Rule of Law in Venezuela
Today, the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers published two new documents on the independence and integrity of judges and lawyers in Venezuela. First, the ICJ today publishes a full...
View ArticleICJ Report: structural deficiencies undermine independence of the judiciary...
A new ICJ report concludes that a comprehensive reform of the system judicial appointments and promotions, as well as of other aspects of the judicial system, is essential to ensure that the judiciary...
View ArticleEU Court’s ruling on asylum claims based on sexual orientation
Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment in the joint cases of A, B and C v. Staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie. It affirms the need for national...
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