Eswatini: ICJ demands justice for the assassination of human rights lawyer...
The assassination of Thulani Maseko, a leading human rights lawyer in Eswatini, requires immediate independent and impartial investigation and accountability, the International Commission of Jurists...
View ArticleEgypt: Abolish the Emergency State Security Courts and End Miscarriages of...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) condemns the mass trial by the Emergency State Security Court (ESSC) in Case No. 1357 of 2019, known as the “Joker case”, of 103 defendants, including 29...
View ArticleTunisia: criminal trials of lawyers and politicians before military courts...
The ICJ condemns the use of military courts to try lawyers and politicians and, once again, urges the Tunisian authorities to ensure that all civilian accused of recognizably criminal offences be tried...
View ArticleLebanon: Undue interference in the Beirut Port Blast Investigation is leaving...
The Lebanese authorities must remove all obstacles impeding the investigation into the Beirut Port Blast on 4 August 2020, and ensure that any related disputes be resolved in compliance with rule of...
View ArticlePeru: the autonomy and independence of the National Jury of Elections must be...
The ICJ expressed, today, its concern at the current crisis adversely affecting the functioning of the rule of law, human rights and democratic governance in Peru. A failed coup d’etat by former...
View ArticlePhilippines: Acquittal of journalist Maria Ressa is welcome, but government...
ICJ welcomes the 18 January 2023 decision of the Philippine Court of Tax Appeals dismissing four tax evasion charges against journalist and Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and the online news outlet...
View ArticleNepal: Lawyers reaffirm the need to take firm steps to eliminate harmful...
At a workshop for lawyers focusing on the Elimination of Gender Discriminatory Attitudes and Behaviors Towards Women and Enhancing Access to Justice for Women organized by the International Commission...
View ArticleMyanmar: Two years after the coup, country further than ever from democracy...
The military coup d’état that overthrew Myanmar’s civilian government on 1 February 2021 has resulted in an ongoing humanitarian crisis and in systematic and widespread human rights violations, many of...
View ArticlePakistan: UN review spotlights human rights failures
Pakistan’s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) has drawn global attention to a number of serious human rights violations in the country, said the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today. On...
View ArticleThailand: Criminal law must not be used in defamation cases and to inhibit...
ICJ and Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada intervene in criminal defamation proceeding against Thai journalist Pratch Rujivanarom. Today, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Lawyers’ Rights...
View ArticleICJ submission to the UN Human Rights Committee on Egypt
In a submission to the UN Human Rights Committee in advance of its forthcoming examination of Egypt’s fifth periodic report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the...
View ArticleNepal: Judges reaffirm the need to avoid unconscious bias and discrimination...
Judges underscored the vital role that the judiciary must play in countering harmful gender stereotypes and unconscious bias in order to ensure access to justice for women at a judicial dialogue on the...
View ArticleIsrael/Palestine: Authorities must end collective punishment of Palestinians
The Israeli authorities must immediately stop all actions amounting to the war crime of collective punishment of the Palestinian people and ensure effective accountability for such actions, the...
View ArticleNicaragua: Liberation of over 200 arbitrarily detained prisoners must be...
The ICJ calls on the Nicaraguan authorities to take immediate steps to restore the rule of law and democratic principles, and end systematic violations of human rights in the country. The authorities...
View ArticleEnd wave of arbitrary arrests targeting critics and opposition members
The Tunisian authorities must cease all ongoing abusive, politicized judicial proceedings aimed at cracking down on government critics, the International Commission of Jurists said today. On 11...
View ArticleKenya: ICJ, EACHRights and GI-ESCR discuss with community leaders strategies...
In Mathare, Kenya, there is an urgent need to improve access to quality public education, and to regulate private actors providing educational services in the community. These were the conclusions of a...
View ArticleThailand: Law to address torture and enforced disappearance is an important...
Today, more than 15 years after Thailand became a State Party to the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT), its long-delayed Act on...
View ArticleHuman Rights Organizations urge WHO to strengthen human rights content of...
Today, the International Commission of Jurists, Amnesty International, the Global Initiative for Economic and Social Rights and Human Rights Watch published a joint public statement calling for a...
View ArticleJurist Santiago A. Canton to take up leadership of the International...
Santiago A. Canton, a distinguished Argentine jurist with decades long experience of fighting for the advancement of human rights and the rule of law, is set to take up the post of Secretary-General of...
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Colombia: Human rights defenders continue to face pressure and attacks
A special feature by Juan Velez Rojas For several decades, Colombia has been a dangerous country for human rights defenders (HRDs) to carry out their critical work. Despite government measures to...
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