Groundbreaking new UN guidance on access to justice for persons with...
The ICJ contributed to and has endorsed a groundbreaking new UN standard aimed at ensuring effective access to justice for persons with disabilities, published today in Geneva. Published today by the...
View ArticleNepal : On the International Day of the Disappeared, organizations call for...
While commemorating the International Day of the Disappeared 2020, the ICJ and 47 other national and international organizations and groups of victims, in Nepal, call on the responsible authorities to...
View ArticleColombia: ICJ report identifies necessary measures to ensure victims of...
The ICJ marked the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances today by releasing a baseline study (in Spanish) which identifies key obstacles to accountability for serious human right...
View ArticleBelarus: authorities must grant access to lawyers to detained protestors,...
Today, the ICJ called on Belarus to comply with its international human rights law obligations in its response to the protests taking place in the aftermath of the presidential elections and in the...
View ArticleIndia: ICJ urges review of criminal contempt laws after Supreme Court...
The ICJ today expressed its concern regarding the 31 August 2020 and 14 August 2020 decisions of the Indian Supreme Court to convict prominent human rights lawyer Prashant Bhushan for criminal contempt...
View ArticleIndependence of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights must be...
Today the ICJ called on the Organization of American States (OAS) to respect the autonomy and independence of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) as the body in charge of promoting...
View ArticleNew ICJ global report shows that the right to health must be central to State...
In a new report published today, the ICJ called on all States to ensure that their responses to the public health emergency brought on by the COVID-19 comply with the international human rights law and...
View ArticleICJ mourns the death of human rights lawyer Ebru TimTik
The ICJ has joined other lawyers and human defenders around the blog in expressing deep sadness for the loss of human rights lawyer Ebru Timkik in an obituary posted in several Turkish newspapers. The...
View ArticleUS must end attacks on International Criminal Court and staff
Ongoing attacks by United States officials on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its staff amount to a full-frontal assault on international justice and the rule of law, said the ICJ, today. On...
View ArticleTurkey: Release Osman Kavala
Turkish authorities should immediately release human rights defender Osman Kavala, in compliance with the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers’ decision of 3 September 2020, the International...
View ArticlePhilippines: ICJ co-hosts Webinar Series on the Elimination of Discrimination...
On 29 August and 5 September, the ICJ collaborated with the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) to hold a webinar series for legal aid providers in the Philippines on eliminating gender...
View ArticleZimbabwe: ICJ launches mechanism to protect whistleblowers in corruption cases
The ICJ, in collaboration with the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), today launched a whistleblowing application (tip off) mechanism in Harare. It is common that people reporting corruption,...
View ArticlePakistan: Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances has failed in...
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (COIED) has wholly failed to address entrenched impunity, leaving victims and their loved without any redress, the ICJ said in a briefing paper...
View ArticleCambodia: authorities must end increasing crackdown on human rights defenders
Today, the ICJ condemned an ongoing and heightened crackdown on civil society activists and human rights defenders in Cambodia, and called on the Royal Government of Cambodia (“RGC”) to cease arbitrary...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Parliament should reject Government’s move to repeal and replace...
The Sri Lankan parliament should reject the Sri Lankan Government’s efforts to amend the country’s constitution to provide unfettered powers to the President while encroaching on the powers of the...
View ArticleTurkey : End detention of lawyers held for representing clients , says ICJ
The ICJ expressed today its deep concern at the arrest order of some 60 lawyers in Turkey on grounds allegedly linked to the representation of their clients, in breach of Turkey’s international law...
View ArticleTurkmenistan: Authorities must respect the rights of detained lawyer...
Today, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) called on Turkmenistan to comply with its international legal obligations to release detained lawyer Pygamberdy Allaberdyev, who is alleged to be...
View ArticleUkraine: online roundtable on security of lawyers and state of legal...
The ICJ in cooperation with the Ukraine National Bar Association will hold an online roundtable discussion “Security of lawyers and state of legal profession in Ukraine”. The event of 18 September 2020...
View ArticleThailand: ICJ holds Workshop on impacts on Economic, Social and Cultural...
On 13 September 2020 the ICJ hosted a workshop on the impacts on economic, social and cultural rights associated with the development of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Thailand. Lawyers, members of...
View ArticleColombia: authorities must conduct credible and independent investigations...
Today, the ICJ called upon the responsible authorities to ensure that prompt, transparent, thorough, impartial and effective investigations are carried out of allegations of extrajudicial killings and...
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