Indonesia: stop executions and reinstate moratorium on death penalty
The ICJ today calls for the immediate suspension of the execution of 10 individuals in Indonesia who have been convicted of drug-related offences and are scheduled to be executed by firing squad this...
View ArticleLa independencia del poder judicial en Guatemala bajo asedio
La CIJ urge a las autoridades a tomar las medidas para investigar y corregir esta situación. Entre el 23 de febrero y el 4 de marzo visitaron Guatemala miembros de la Asociación de Jueces de Noruega;...
View ArticleSingapore: Court of Appeal judgment upholding caning flouts international law...
The ICJ today expressed its dismay that the Singapore Court of Appeal, in a judgment issued on 4 March 2015 declined to declare caning, a painful form of corporal punishment, to be unlawful. The...
View ArticleCouncil of Europe: ICJ and AI observations on draft foreign fighters protocol...
The ICJ and Amnesty International have submitted public observations on the terms of reference to draft an Additional Protocol supplementing the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of...
View ArticleJoint intervention in case of immigration detention of mother and children
The ICJ, the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and the AIRE Centre submitted a thirty party intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in the case of the immigration detention...
View ArticleEU: Briefing paper on proposed directive on presumption of Innocence
The ICJ, JUSTICE and NJCM have published their analysis of the proposed EU directive on the presumption of innocence, and made recommendations for amendments, to ensure its compliance with...
View ArticlePakistan’s decision to lift death penalty moratorium a disaster for human rights
Pakistan’s decision to fully reinstate the death penalty puts at imminent risk of execution more than 500 people on death row who have exhausted all avenues of appeal, with another 8000 facing death...
View ArticleCouncil of Europe: ICJ and AI submission on draft foreign fighters protocol
The ICJ and Amnesty International have presented a submission on the draft of an Additional Protocol supplementing the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism. In their submission,...
View ArticleMalaysia: ICJ condemns the arrest of lawyer, reiterates call for repeal of...
The arrest and criminal investigation today of prominent human rights Malaysian lawyer Eric Paulsen, apparently in connection to messages he sent on Twitter, is another move towards Malaysia’s...
View ArticleRight to Privacy: Human Rights Council creates UN Special Rapporteur
The UN Human Rights Council today adopted a landmark resolution on “the right to privacy in the digital age” that will establish for the first time a UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy.The...
View ArticleJoint NGO Response to the draft Brussels Declaration on the “Implementation...
The ICJ, and other NGOs present at the Brussels Conference on the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights today responded to the final draft of the Brussels Declaration to be adopted...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Searches of lawyers’ premises are contrary to international law...
The ICJ today expressed concern at searches of lawyers’ homes and workplace by Kyrgyz investigators in the city of Osh. The home of lawyer Valerian Vakhitov and the office of the human rights...
View ArticleJustice John Lawrence O’Meally and Justice Fatsah Ouguergouz join the ICJ
The ICJ is please to announce the appointment of two new Commissioners: Justice John Lawrence O’Meally (Australia) and Justice Fatsah Ouguergouz (Algeria). The new Commissioners were elected, by...
View ArticleVenezuela: stop harassing human rights defenders
Venezuela is intimidating and harassing human rights defenders, and making unsubstantiated allegations that they are seeking to undermine Venezuelan democracy, 28 international and Latin American human...
View ArticleBangladesh: stay Muhammad Kamaruzzaman’s imminent execution
Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid should intervene to stay the imminent execution of Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, said the ICJ today. Kamaruzzaman was sentenced...
View ArticleCouncil of Europe: ICJ and AI third submission on draft foreign fighters...
The ICJ and Amnesty International submitted today their observations on the revised draft Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism to the Committee of...
View ArticleICJ submission to EU Ombudsman on Frontex joint return flights
The ICJ made a submission to the EU Ombudsman on the compliance of the Code of Conduct on Joint Return Operations of Frontex with international human rights law. The submission was presented in the...
View ArticleHungary: ICJ intervenes in case of dismissal of Supreme Court President
The ICJ submitted today a third party intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Baka v. Hungary, regarding the dismissal of the former Supreme Court President of Hungary. In...
View ArticleShootings in courthouse in Milan, Italy
Among the victims of a gun attack today at the Palace of Justice of Milan, according to press reports, were Judge Fernando Ciampi and lawyer Lorenzo Alberto Claris Appiani. Press reports state that the...
View ArticleMalaysia: ICJ condemns passing of amendments of Sedition Act
The ICJ today condemned the passing of the amendments to the archaic 1948 Sedition Act by Parliament’s House of Representatives. The amendments broaden and deepen even further the scope for this law to...
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