Russian Federation: ICJ calls for prompt and effective investigation into...
The ICJ today expressed serious concern at the killing of lawyer Vitaliy Moiseyev and his wife Elena Moiseyeva in the Moscow region. The ICJ calls on the investigative and any other relevant...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: quash convictions of lawyers convicted for exercising their...
The ICJ calls for the convictions of Abdulrahman Al-Subaihi, Bandar Al-Nogithan and Abdulrahman Al-Rumaih, three prominent Saudi lawyers, to be quashed and for the Saudi authorities to end their...
View ArticleCourt of Appeal affirms role for domestic courts in UK torture claims
High Court bar on Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Bouchar pursuing claim against UK officials allegedly involved in their abduction and illegal transfer to Libya is overturned. The ICJ, Amnesty...
View ArticleSri Lanka: UN Human Rights Committee expresses concern, urges reforms to...
The UN Human Rights Committee today emphasized the need for Sri Lanka to take legislative and other measures to address concerns for the independence of the judiciary in the country. The ICJ and other...
View ArticleTraining on migration and human rights in Serbia
The ICJ, OSCE and Group 484 are holding a training on migration and international human rights law starting on Monday 3 November in Arandelovac (Serbia). The training has been organised by the...
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October ICJ E-Bulletin on counter-terrorism and human rights – no. 87
Read the 87th issue of ICJ’s monthly newsletter on proposed and actual changes in counter-terrorism laws, policies and practices and their impact on human rights at the national, regional and...
View ArticleICJ denounces spate of death sentences in Bangladesh
The ICJ deplores that in less than a week, Bangladesh courts ordered the death penalty in three cases. All three condemned men are leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the country’s largest Islamist party...
View ArticleICJ convenes Regional Judicial Dialogue to promote and protect human rights...
On 6 and 7 November 2014, judges and representatives of judicial training institutions from most ASEAN Member States will gather in Manila to discuss recent developments in international human rights...
View ArticleDraconian secrecy rules at Guantanamo compound the flagrant violations of...
The ICJ, REDRESS and OMCT submit report to the UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva ahead of its 12-13 November session on the USA. The United States has committed far-reaching violations of...
View ArticleJudges from Southeast Asia discuss deciding cases involving human rights...
For the fist time, about 40 judges and representatives from judicial training institutions across Southeast Asia gathered to discuss recent developments in international human rights law on the right...
View ArticleBulgaria: ICJ observer at Todorova appeal hearing
A trial observer from the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers will observe today the hearing of an appeal of disciplinary sanctions imposed on Bulgarian judge Miroslava Todorova. The...
View ArticleICJ presents its new reports on special economic regimes and their impact on...
On 18 November, the ICJ presented and discussed, in a meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels, its two reports on special economic regimes and their impact on social rights in Peru and Morocco....
View ArticleThailand: End prosecution of civilians in military tribunals
Thailand must end immediately the prosecution of civilians in military tribunals and transfer all remaining cases to the civilian courts, said the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today. On 18...
View ArticleICJ welcomes General Assembly’s Third Committee’s adoption of resolution on...
The ICJ welcomes the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee’s adoption of resolution A/C.3/69/L.47 on Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on 19 November most recently. The resolution, which...
View ArticleICJ urges Bangladesh to act on long-overdue investigation into alleged...
Bangladesh must immediately launch a thorough investigation into alleged attacks on a prominent human rights lawyer, the ICJ said today. The government appears to have taken no real action in the year...
View ArticleTajikistan: ICJ calls for steps to ensure independence of the legal profession
Following a visit to the country from 15 to 19 November, the ICJ called on the government of Tajikistan to take meaningful steps to ensure that the institutional independence of the legal profession...
View ArticleThe ICJ strongly condemns Malaysia’s decision to retain and strengthen...
The ICJ today strongly condemned the decision by Prime Minister Najib Razak to retain and even strengthen the country’s 1948 Sedition Act despite having made a commitment in 2012 to repeal the Act. The...
View ArticleStrengthening the Rule of Law in Venezuela
Today, the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers published two new documents on the independence and integrity of judges and lawyers in Venezuela. First, the ICJ today publishes a full...
View ArticleICJ Report: structural deficiencies undermine independence of the judiciary...
A new ICJ report concludes that a comprehensive reform of the system judicial appointments and promotions, as well as of other aspects of the judicial system, is essential to ensure that the judiciary...
View ArticleBolivia: proceedings against three judges remains unacceptable despite...
The ICJ expresses deep concern that the Legislative Assembly of Bolivia continues to threaten three Constitutional Court judges with removal, and possibly criminal punishment, based solely on...
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