Cambodia: Ministries should withdraw draft cybersecurity law which would...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Access Now sent a joint letter and an accompanying legal analysis to Cambodia’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and Ministry of Justice,...
View ArticleEgypt: Torture so Widespread and Systematic as to Constitute a Crime Against...
Today, a coalition of international and Egyptian NGOs has submitted a detailed legal analysis to the UN Committee against Torture concluding that the Egyptian authorities’ use of torture is so...
View ArticleThe 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 ArticleTunisia: End judicial harassment of lawyers
The ICJ condemns the recent prosecution of two lawyers, Dalila Msadek and Islem Hamza, who act as defence counsel in a high-profile case involving political opposition figures. On 29 September 2023,...
View ArticleNepal: ICJ launches mentorship program for lawyers on the right to education
10 October 2023 The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in partnership with the Economic, Social and Cultural National Network/Justice & Rights Institute Nepal (JuRI-Nepal), the Public...
View ArticleIsrael/Occupied Palestinian Territory: immediately end attacks on civilians
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) condemns the direct attacks against civilians in Israel, including deliberate killings of hundreds of civilians, the taking of hostages and the launching...
View ArticleTurkey: Top Court Upholds Rights Defender’s Life Term Conviction of Osman...
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 ArticleCambodia: UN Human Rights Council urged to respond to human rights and rule...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) called the Human Rights Council’s (HRC) attention to the entrenched pattern of human rights violations in Cambodia, and called on the HRC to adopt a...
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 ArticleICJ’s statement on the conclusion of the 54th session of the UN Human Rights...
Geneva, 13 October 2023 In this statement, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) looks back at five weeks of consideration of a wide range of country situations and human rights thematic...
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 ArticleIsrael/Occupied Palestinian Territory: attacks on civilians and hospitals...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) condemns the strike on al-Ahli hospital in the Gaza Strip on 17 October 2023, which according to the Palestinian Health Ministry killed more than 500...
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 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 ArticleICJ oral statement on the start of negotiations on the future legally binding...
A week of negotiations started at the United Nations in Geneva yesterday to enhance the international legal framework to regulate business enterprises, especially transnational corporations, and...
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 ArticleGaza/Occupied Palestinian Territory: Immediate Ceasefire Necessary to Prevent...
The International Commission of Jurists renews its call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip following the most recent Israeli attacks on the densely populated Jabalia refugee camp in northern...
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