Nepal: Government must implement landmark Supreme Court decision against...
The Nepali government must fully implement yesterday’s decision of the Supreme Court rejecting the possibility of amnesties for perpetrators of serious human rights abuses during the country’s civil...
View ArticleAcciones en pro de las personas LGBTI en Guatemala
Presentación de la obra de teatro DESIDENCIAS y debate. Este es el primer evento de esta indóle que la CIJ lleva a cabo a favor de la promoción de los derechos humanos de las personas LGBTI en...
View ArticleICJ and ECRE fourth submission on the implementation of M.S.S. judgment
The ICJ and ECRE presented a joint letter on the situation of the asylum and reception systems in Greece to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. The submission was presented on the...
View ArticleMyanmar: scrap ‘race and religion laws’ that could fuel discrimination and...
Myanmar’s parliament must reject or extensively revise a series of proposed laws that would entrench already widespread discrimination and risk fuelling further violence against religious minorities,...
View ArticleIndonesia: 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...
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February ICJ E-Bulletin on counter-terrorism and human rights – no. 90
Read the 90th 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 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 ArticleThailand: live up to promises “to do its utmost” to bring justice in the case...
Thailand must live up to its repeated promises to bring justice to the case of Somchai Neelapaijit, who was forcibly disappeared eleven years ago today, said the ICJ. In multiple statements since...
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 ArticleMalaysia: ICJ calls for immediate release of Nurul Izzah Anwar, detained in...
The ICJ today condemned the arrest and detention of Malaysian Member of Parliament and daughter of imprisoned opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, Nurul Izzah Anwar, under section 4(1) of the colonial-era...
View ArticleSide event: legally binding instruments on business and human rights –...
This side event will take place on Thursday 19 March 2015, 12.00-14.00, at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Room XXVII. It aims at creating a space to discuss the EU agenda on Business & Human...
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: Immediately release opposition lawmaker Tian Chua
The Malaysian government should immediately release from detention Malaysian Parliamentarian Tian Chua, the ICJ said. Tian Chua, who is also Vice President of the opposition Parti Kaedilan Rakyat...
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 ArticleMaldives: grossly unfair Nasheed conviction highlights judicial politicization
The conviction of the Maldives’ former president, Mohamed Nasheed, on terrorism charges after a grossly unfair trial marks a significant deterioration of the independence and impartiality of the...
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...
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