ICJ holds Geneva Forum 2014 on enforcement of economic, social and cultural...
Today and tomorrow, the ICJ welcomes judges and lawyers from all regions of the world to discuss the “Judicial Enforcement of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”. The 2014 Geneva Forum of Judges and...
View ArticleAnnual Business and Human Rights Forum: ICJ experts talk about issues linked...
Vani Sathisan, ICJ’s International Legal Adviser in Myanmar, and Carlos Lopez, ICJ Senior Legal Adviser on Business and Human Rights made presentations at the annual Business and Human Rights Forum....
View ArticleThe United States must provide for accountability of officials and justice...
The ICJ repeated its call for the United States to take immediate measures to hold accountable officials for acts of torture, enforced disappearance and other gross human rights violations committed in...
View ArticleViet Nam: release three unfairly convicted human rights defenders
The ICJ condemned decision of the People’s Supreme Court on 12 December 2014 affirming the unfair convictions of human rights defenders Bui Thi Minh Hang, Nguyen Van Minh and Nguyen Thi Thuy Quynh...
View ArticleChina: one lawyer released, situation for lawyers remains serious
Mr Chang Boyang, whose case ICJ raised in a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping in September calling for his release, has been released on bail. Mr Boyang, a lawyer working among other things to...
View ArticleEU Court Opinion a major setback for human rights in Europe
Today’s Opinion by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg on the European Union’s (EU) accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is a regrettable setback for...
View ArticleSudan: ICJ calls for release of arbitrarily detained lawyers Dr Amin Mekki...
Prominent human rights lawyer Dr Amin Mekki Medani, and lawyer and political opposition leader Farouk Abu Issa, remain in detention at an unknown location. The two men were arbitrarily arrested by the...
View ArticleICJ presents expert opinion on migrant’s detention before Bosnian...
The ICJ presented today an expert opinion on the itnernational law applicable to administrative detention of non-citizens before the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The ICJ submitted...
View ArticlePakistan: resuming executions will not provide justice for Peshawar school...
Pakistan should immediately halt carrying out the death penalty, said the ICJ today after two people were executed in the wake of the horrific attack on a school in Peshawar that killed 149 people,...
View ArticleAttack on Charlie Hebdo an assault on freedom of expression
The ICJ deplores today’s murderous attack against journalists and others by armed assailants at the offices of the weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The attack reportedly left at least 12...
View ArticleMalaysia: ICJ condemns lawyer’s arrest, calls for repeal of Sedition Act
The ICJ today condemned the arrest and investigation of prominent human rights lawyer and co-founder of Lawyers for Liberty, Eric Paulsen, under the archaic 1948 Sedition Act. The arrest, which took...
View ArticleTajikistan: ICJ concerned at conviction of lawyer Shukhrat Kudratov
The ICJ today expressed its concern at the prosecution and conviction of lawyer Shukhrat Kudratov by Dushanbe City Court on charges of fraud and bribery. On 13 January, Judge Tokhirbek Musobekhzod...
View ArticleICJ condemns execution of six persons in Indonesia: the death penalty is a...
The ICJ condemned the execution in Indonesia of six persons convicted of drug trafficking offences. Other rights groups issued similar denunciations. The ICJ emphasized that the death penalty...
View ArticleArgentina: ICJ Calls for effective investigation into the death of Prosecutor...
The investigation into the reported death of Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman must be thorough, prompt and impartial, the ICJ said today. The prosecutor had last week publicly accused the...
View ArticleIreland: Transgender legal recognition finally within reach thanks to Foy’s case
Today, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) salutes Dr Lydia Foy for her courage and determination and congratulates her for bringing legal recognition of transgender people finally within...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: ICJ observes disbarment hearing of lawyer Kalid Baghirov
On 2 February, the ICJ observed the trial of lawyer Kalid Baghirov, before the Nizami District Court of Baku. In the case, the Azerbaijan Collegium of Lawyers seeks disbarment of the prominent lawyer...
View ArticleConference on enforced and involuntary disappearances in Asia: building...
In partnership with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), the ICJ convened a two-day conference in Islamabad on 2-3 February 2015. The conference brought together civil society activists,...
View ArticleRussian Federation: ICJ urges protection for security of lawyers, following...
The ICJ is concerned by yesterday’s attack on lawyer Murad Magomedov in Makhachkala, near the Supreme Court of Dagestan building. The ICJ calls on the authorities to take effective measures to...
View ArticleNepal: Government must implement landmark Supreme Court decision against...
The Nepali government must fully implement yesterday’s decision of the Supreme Court rejecting the possibility of amnesties for perpetrators of serious human rights abuses during the country’s civil...
View ArticleICJ and ECRE fourth submission on the implementation of M.S.S. judgment
The ICJ and ECRE presented a joint letter on the situation of the asylum and reception systems in Greece to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. The submission was presented on the...
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