Turkey: Release Politicians Wrongfully Detained for 7 Years Former Deputies...
(Istanbul, November 3, 2023) – The Turkish government should abide by international law and implement the binding judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) by immediately releasing...
View ArticleTajikistan: Round Table on the Application of International Law in Judicial...
Today, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in collaboration with the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tajikistan the Office of the High Commission of Human Rights (OHCHR) Regional Office for...
View ArticleThe African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ judgment of 22 September...
Today, the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR) opens its 71st Ordinary Session. To mark the occasion, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in collaboration with inkyfada,...
View ArticleThailand: ICJ and Amnesty International ask the court to apply international...
Yesterday, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Amnesty International (AI) jointly submitted an amicus curiae legal brief to the Bangkok South Civil Court in a class-action lawsuit filed...
View ArticleMarching ahead: It’s time to decriminalize
An opinion piece by Mathuri Thamilmaran, National Legal Advisor – Sri Lanka at the International Commission of Jurists Recently, the Mauritius Supreme Court ruled that a 185-year-old law criminalizing...
View ArticleTunisia: Reject Bill Dismantling Civil Society
Arbitrary restrictions and excessive government control. (Tunis, 7 November 2023) – The draft law on associations submitted by 10 parliamentarians to the Tunisian Parliament on 10 October 2023 would...
View ArticleICJ and other human rights groups: Draft “Pandemic Treaty” fails to comply...
World Health Organization (WHO) member states should push for clear commitments to human rights protections in the text of a draft “pandemic treaty” being negotiated on November 6-10, four rights...
View ArticlePakistan: The ICJ Denounces the Expulsion of Afghan Nationals Noting the...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) strongly condemns the Government of Pakistan’s decision to expel over 1.4 million Afghan nationals, including unregistered refugees, forcibly removing them...
View ArticleGaza/Palestine: States have a Duty to Prevent Genocide
LEGAL BRIEFER: States’ Duty to Prevent Genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention This legal briefer focuses on States’ duty to prevent genocide under international law. However, the International...
View ArticleGermany: Verdict in Gambia Atrocity Case
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/28/germany-verdict-gambia-atrocity-case Berlin, November 28, 2023 – A German court in the city of Celle is expected to deliver a verdict on...
View ArticleIndonesia: ICJ asks court to ensure that defamation and “false information”...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in an amicus curiae brief submitted on 14 June 2023, requested the East Jakarta District Court to give effect to Indonesia’s international legal...
View ArticleIndonesia: Criminalization of disinformation threatens freedom of expression
An opinion piece by Yogi Bratajaya, ICJ Legal Consultant and Daron Tan, ICJ Associate International Legal Adviser, Asia and the Pacific Programme, published on The Jakarta Post on 27 November 2023....
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EU: Protecting Judicial Independence: Lawyers’ strategic litigation workshop
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in collaboration with aditus, Human Rights in Practice, Forum for Human Rights, Free Courts organized a workshop for lawyers on judicial independence and...
View ArticleIndonesia: Newly revised ITE Law threatens freedom of expression and must be...
The second revision of Law No. 11 of 2008 on Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE Law), which was passed on 5 December 2023, does not comply with international human rights law and standards on...
View ArticlePhilippines: Public prosecutors are critical to protecting human rights in...
On 5 – 6 December 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) co-organized a workshop, with the Department of Justice (DOJ) of the Philippines, on ensuring the protection of human rights in the...
View ArticleThailand: Law on the development of the Eastern Economic Corridor should be...
“The law governing the development of Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) must be evaluated and revised to address concerns raised by local communities, and align with Thailand’s international...
View ArticleThailand: Exchange of best practices from Latin America on litigating...
On 29 November 2023, the ICJ co-hosted a dialogue among Thai lawyers, academics, and Santiago A. Canton, Secretary General of the ICJ to exchange best practices from Latin America, specifically...
View ArticleThailand: Authorities must do more to ensure access to justice and effective...
The conclusion drawn at a workshop hosted by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Thailand’s Ministry of Justice on 30 November and 1 December 2023, in Ayutthaya province, was that...
View ArticlePeru: Former President Fujimori’s unlawful release through “humanitarian...
Peru violated its obligations under international law by releasing former President, Alberto Fujimori, in blatant defiance of orders issued by the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACtHR) said the...
View ArticleLibya: Marking 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, the ICJ...
On the occasion of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, from 25 November to 10 December, the 25th anniversary of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders on 9 December, and the 75th...
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