Thailand: ICJ Workshop promotes standards applying to investigations of...
From 29 to 31 March 2019, the ICJ co-hosted a workshop in Ayutthaya province for authorities from Thailand on Human Rights, Investigation Techniques and Forensic Examination of Evidence. The event...
View ArticleSingapore: Parliament must reject internet regulation bill that threatens...
Today, the ICJ urged Singapore’s Parliament not to pass the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill 2019 (‘Online Falsehoods Bill’), which was tabled on Monday, 1 April. The ICJ said...
View ArticleICJ Congress 2019: the Tunis Declaration, Video
At the 19th World Congress of the ICJ held in Tunisia on 23-24 March, some 100 distinguished judges, lawyers came together to adopt the Tunis Declaration on Reinforcing the Rule of Law. The Declaration...
View ArticleICJ Commissioner Mikiko Otani addresses Philippine lawyers on gender equality...
On 31 March, Mikiko Otani, ICJ’s Commissioner and a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, spoke to Filipino lawyers at the bi-annual National Lawyers’ Conference of the Integrated Bar...
View ArticleLibya: all parties to the conflict must abide by international law and ensure...
Today, the ICJ called on the parties to the conflict in Libya to comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law to protect affected people,...
View ArticleVedanta Resources and subsidiary to face justice in the UK over human rights...
Today, the ICJ and the CORE Coalition welcomed the decision of the United Kingdom Supreme Court to allow a complaint to proceed against Vedanta Resources Plc and its Zambian subsidiary Konkola Copper...
View ArticleTurkey: ICJ holds workshop on the implementation of European Court judgments
Today in Ankara the ICJ convened a workshop for lawyers and civil society practitioners on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human rights. The 29 participants in the workshop...
View ArticleUkraine: criminal proceedings against lawyer Andriy Domanskyi raise concerns
Today, the ICJ expressed concern at the criminal proceedings against Andriy Domanskyi, a lawyer practicing in Ukraine, known for representing individuals facing political prosecution and defending...
View ArticleSingapore: ICJ calls on government not to adopt online regulation bill in...
The ICJ sent a letter urging Singapore’s government to refrain from passing into law the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill 2019 (‘Online Falsehoods Bill’) in its current form. The...
View ArticleEgypt: Constitutional Amendments Entrench Repression
Referendum Set in Grossly Unfree, Rights-Abusive Environment . The Egyptian government should withdraw proposed constitutional amendments that will consolidate authoritarian rule, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleThailand: End prosecution of civilians in military courts and repeal or amend...
Today, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) submitted recommendations to the Council of the State calling for the repeal or amendment of National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) and Head of...
View ArticleEgypt: African rights summit amid dire abuses
Egypt is hosting an Africa human rights summit meeting beginning April 24, 2019, while its government is presiding over the worst human rights crisis in the country in recent decades. The 64th Ordinary...
View ArticleCentral Asia: First regional workshop of prosecutors on extradition, mutual...
Today, the ICJ, together with the General Prosecutor’s Office of Uzbekistan, UNODC and OHCHR are holding the first regional meeting of prosecutors from Central Asia and the Russian Federation to...
View ArticleICJ publishes recommendations on the role and independence of lawyers in...
The recommendations published today follow the Conference on the Independence of the Legal profession held by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the Council of Europe (CoE) Office in Baku...
View ArticleTunisia: Statement from the organisations of the Coalition of transitional...
The statement alerts the public of the danger of a bill which dismantles the specialized criminal chambers in Tunisia and replaces them with an institution which would guarantee impunity for those who...
View ArticleICJ calls on states to address Tanzanian human rights at upcoming UNHRC session
The ICJ has joined with more than 35 other international and African NGOs, calling on states to address the ongoing deterioration of the human rights situation in Tanzania, at the upcoming session of...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Government must act to protect religious minorities against violence
The ICJ today condemned a series of the acts of violence directed against the Muslim community in the aftermath of the Easter attacks on 21 April in Sri Lanka directed at churches and other places. In...
View ArticleNGOs Submission Ahead of the Third Biennial Report of the UN...
Ahead of the 2020 review of the human rights treaty body system, the ICJ, together with a number of NGO partners, have made a joint submission to the UN Secretary-General ahead of his third and last...
View ArticleTajikistan: ICJ concludes mission on the independence, organisation and...
The ICJ concluded a research mission on the independence of the judiciary in Tajikistan on 3 May. Following the mission, the ICJ expressed concerns about the independence of individual judges as well...
View ArticleThe ICJ and Geneva Bar Association launch ambitious global project
The ICJ, the Geneva Bar Association and the Geneva legal community have joined forces to launch the ICJ-Geneva Lawyers International Cooperation Initiative. Under the Initiative, Geneva lawyers will...
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