Turkey : Immediately free lawyer and human rights defender Öztürk Türkdoğan
The ICJ called today on the Turkish authorities to immediately release human rights defender and lawyer Öztürk Türkdoğan, who was arrested this morning after an unlawful search of his home. The charges...
View ArticleTunisia: ICJ roundtable on strengthening accountability through the...
On 13 and 14 March 2021, the ICJ and the Association of Tunisian Magistrates (AMT) organized a roundtable discussion in Tunis to assist Specialized Criminal Chambers (SCC) judges and prosecutors to...
View ArticleThe aftermath of the Malaysiakini decision
An op-ed by Daron Tan, Legal Consultant at the ICJ Asia & the Pacific Programme On February 19 2021, the Malaysian Federal Court found Malaysiakini, an online news outlet, guilty for criminal...
View ArticleHuman rights and universal access to COVID-19 vaccines: does the Human Rights...
By Tim Fish Hodgson, Legal Adviser on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the International Commission of Jurists and Rossella De Falco, Programme Officer on the Right to Health at Global...
View ArticleSingapore: Civil defamation ruling against blogger Leong Sze Hian further...
The decision by the High Court of Singapore ordering blogger Leong Sze Hian to pay Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong SG$133,000 (approx. USD$98,765) in a defamation suit over the sharing of an article on...
View ArticleZimbabwe: women human rights defenders face higher risk of sexual or...
Women human rights defenders are at a heightened risk of sexual or gender-based violence as a result of the nature of their work in defence of human rights, the ICJ said in a new report published...
View ArticleFinal conference: implementation of international law on economic, social and...
Today, the ICJ, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Regional Office for Central Asia (ROCA) and the Supreme School of Judges of the Republic of Uzbekistan (SSJ) are holding a...
View ArticleTunisia: Joint communication to UN Special Procedures calls for immediate...
In a joint communication to five United Nations Special Procedures, the ICJ and its partners urged the mandate holders to call on the Tunisian authorities to immediately stop hampering the transitional...
View ArticleTunisia: ICJ workshop highlights need for Specialized Criminal Chambers to...
The credibility of the criminal trials currently ongoing before Tunisia’s Specialised Criminal Chambers depends on their capacity to deliver justice and reparation to victims and their families in a...
View ArticleCzech Republic: Conference highlights role of judges in protecting rights of...
Judges play a crucial role in protecting the rights of migrants and asylum seekers, and refugees , experts emphasized at a conference for judges in the Czech Republic held by the International...
View ArticleBreak the cycle of impunity for rape in Nepal
An opinion piece by Laxmi Pokharel and Boram Jang, International Commission of Jurists Legal Advisors on Access to Justice for Women In February 2021 hundreds of demonstrators in Kathmandu dressed in...
View ArticleMalaysia: contempt of court action abused to harass human rights lawyer...
The ICJ today called for the reform of the country’s law on contempt of court to prevent their abuse and for the withdrawal of the contempt action filed against human rights lawyer Charles Hector....
View ArticleThailand: repressive draft law on the operation of not-for-profit...
Today, the ICJ submitted recommendations to Thailand’s Office of the Council of State concerning the Draft Act on the Operation of Not-for-Profit Organizations B.E. … (‘Draft Act’), which is scheduled...
View ArticleThailand: Joint Submissions by ICJ and its Partners to the Universal Periodic...
On 25 March 2021, the ICJ filed two submissions to the UN Human Rights Council Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) ahead of the review of Thailand’s human rights record in November...
View ArticleHong Kong: Conviction of seven pro-democracy activists another blow to the...
The conviction of political activists Martin Lee, Margaret Ng, Jimmy Lai, Lee Cheuk-yan, Albert Ho, Leung Kwok-hung, Cyd Ho for their role in organizing public protests in 2019 delivers a massive blow...
View ArticleNew ICJ report on human rights abuses based on sexual orientation and gender...
For International Transgender Day of Visibility, the ICJ launched a report setting out an overview of States’ legal obligations under the international human rights framework in relation to issues of...
View ArticleGreece and Italy: judges highlight the need for procedural guarantees for...
Migrants and asylum seekers must be provided adequate procedural guarantees in asylum procedures and in immigration detention, a group of experts and judges asserted during a seminar for Greek and...
View ArticleMalaysia: Cease criminal investigations of peaceful UNDI18 protestors
The ICJ today called on the Malaysian authorities to drop their criminal investigations of at least 11 participants in the peaceful Undi18 protests. The Dang Wangi district police opened investigations...
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Thailand: NGO law would strike ‘severe blow’ to human rights
The Thai authorities’ adoption of a draft law to regulate non-profit groups would strike a severe blow to human rights in Thailand, several international organizations said today. The bill is the...
View ArticleTunisia: victims’ right to reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence must...
Victims of gross human rights violations must be provided with effective reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence by Tunisia’s Specialized Criminal Chambers (SCC), judges and prosecutors asserted...
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