Martin Ennals Award 2015: the final selection is known
The three final human rights defenders who will compete for the award are Ahmed Mansoor (United Arab Emirates), Robert Sann Aung (Myanmar) and Asmaou Diallo (Guinea). The ICJ is member of the MEA Jury....
View ArticleSwaziland: arrest of judges raises serious concerns
The ICJ is concerned at the recent arrest of Swaziland High Court Judges Jacobus Annandale and Mpendulo Simelane, the High Court Registrar Fikile Nhlabatsi and the Minister of Justice Sibusiso Shongwe....
View ArticleEgypt: authorities must effectively investigate deaths of lawyers in custody
The ICJ today called on the Egyptian authorities to ensure a prompt, impartial and effective investigation into the deaths of two lawyers, Imam Afifi and Karim Hamdi, who recently died while in police...
View ArticleIndonesia: stop executions and abolish the death penalty
The ICJ urged the Government of Indonesia today to stop the imminent execution of nine persons convicted of drug-related offenses. The ICJ emphasized that the death penalty constitutes a denial of the...
View ArticleICJ deplores the EU’s inadequate response to mass deaths in the Mediterranean...
The ICJ is urging the European Council to immediately act to take effective measures to protect the lives of migrants at sea, after it failed to respond adequately to the repeated tragedies at a...
View ArticleZimbabwe: symposium helps increase law students’ understanding of economic,...
The ICJ and the Zimbabwe Law Students Association (ZILSA) held a symposium on economic, social and cultural rights (ESC rights) on 17 April 2015 at Rainbow Towers Hotel, Harare. A total of 84 people...
View ArticleAsean must stop brushing-off civil society
An opinion piece by James Tager, a Satter Fellow from Harvard Law School currently working with the ICJ on research focusing on business and human rights in the Asean. This week, the Asean People’s...
View ArticleICJ welcomes adoption of Basic Principles and Guidelines on habeas corpus
The ICJ welcomes yesterday’s adoption, by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, of the Working Group’s “Basic Principles and Guidelines on Remedies and Procedures on the Right of Anyone Deprived...
View ArticleArab Court of Human Rights: the Tunis Declaration published
Following a recent international conference, the ICJ and the other participants elaborated and signed the Tunis Declaration on the Arab Court of Human Rights.Among other things, the Tunis declaration...
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April ICJ E-Bulletin on counter-terrorism and human rights – no. 92
Read the 92nd 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 ArticleSwaziland: ICJ mission to examine independence and accountability of the...
From 11-15 May 2015, the mission will meet with a variety of stakeholders, including officials in the executive, the Ministry of Justice, the judiciary, members of Parliament, the legal profession,...
View ArticleTunisia: amend or drop Security Bill
Provisions on State secrecy and “denigrating” security forces undermine free speech, the ICJ and 12 other rights organizations say. The ICJ today joined 12 international organizations calling on the...
View ArticleASEAN: ICJ condemns Indonesian and Malaysian push-backs at sea
The ICJ today condemned the decisions of the governments of Indonesia and Malaysia to turn away and push back boats carrying hundreds of Bangladeshis and Rohingyas, including women and children, out to...
View ArticleZimbabwe: EU-funded project launched to improve administration of justice
Today the ICJ is launching an EU funded project to contribute to an improvement in administration of justice in Zimbabwe. It is hoped that it will also result in greater legal protection of human...
View ArticleMyanmar: Letpadaung convictions grossly unfair
The ICJ today condemned the conviction of six human rights defenders after an unfair trial lasting less than five minutes. The six were charged in connection with their participation in a peaceful...
View ArticleSwaziland: mission finds deep flaws in justice system
Concluding a five-day mission today, an International Fact-Finding team of the ICJ observed that there are serious structural deficiencies in Swaziland’s justice system that need to be addressed...
View ArticleTunisia: deeply flawed Judicial Council law should be halted, revised
The ICJ today called on the Tunisian President to refrain from promulgating Organic Law No. 16/2015 on the High Judicial Council (HJC), and urged the Tunisian authorities to act to reform the deeply...
View ArticleRussian Federation: ICJ mission on the independence of the legal profession
From 18 to 22 May, the ICJ will carry out a mission to the Russian Federation to examine questions related to the independence and integrity of the legal profession, access to an independent lawyer and...
View ArticleEgypt: executions and mass death sentences a profound disregard for the right...
The ICJ condemns ongoing egregious human rights violations, including the right to life by the Egyptian authorities and facilitated by unfair judicial proceedings. Yesterday, six men were executed...
View ArticleIndonesia: grant Mary Jane Veloso permanent reprieve from execution and...
In a letter sent this week, the ICJ urged President Joko Widodo to grant Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipino national on death row in Indonesia, a permanent reprieve from execution and to impose a moratorium...
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