Turkey: Council of Europe triggers infringement process against Turkey for...
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers decision notifying Turkey it will start infringement proceedings over its failure to comply with the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) order to free...
View ArticleTunisia: Stop attacks on the judiciary
The on-going attacks against the High Judicial Council and the judiciary are an affront to the separation of powers and the rule of law and must stop immediately, said the International Commission of...
View ArticleMyanmar: Authorities must immediately quash convictions of Aung San Suu Kyi...
The conviction of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint by a Myanmar military tribunal is a travesty of justice and constitutes further evidence of the military’s control over the...
View ArticleEngaging with civil society after Facebook revelations
On 8 December 2021, ICJ alongside 20 other civil society organisations sent a letter to Frances Haugen, the former Facebook employee who spoke out about the tech giant’s business model and the...
View ArticleEU: Recommendations on the individual assessment of children in conflict with...
Protection of the human rights of children in conflict with the law should be at the heart of the individual assessment process required by EU law, the International Commission of Jurists and Forum for...
View ArticleTunisia: Uphold Judicial Independence
Tunisia’s authorities have failed to act upon the IVD recommendations to uphold judicial independence as a prerequisite to the rule of law and a fundamental safeguard for constitutional rights and...
View ArticleItaly: ICJ Co-Convenes Experts in Global Health Law and Human Rights
From 21 to 23 November the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Global Health Law Consortium (GHLC) co-convened 30 leading experts in human rights and global and public health law in...
View ArticleNew ICJ guide for human rights defenders and civil society organizations
Today, the International Commission of Jurists launches a guide for human rights defenders who work on accountability for serious human rights violations, including, in particular, unlawful deaths and...
View ArticleTunisia: international community must urge re-establishment of constitutional...
President Saied’s continued attacks on the separation of powers and the 2014 constitution should receive international condemnation, said the ICJ today. هذا البيان الصحفي متوفر باللغة العربية أيضا...
View ArticleLaos: Nine years on, civil society worldwide still demands answers on...
On the ninth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned organizations, reiterate our calls on the Lao government to determine his fate...
View ArticleGuatemala: ICJ report identifies failures and challenges in achieving...
Guatemalan officials and the justice system as a whole have failed to deliver accountability and provide redress for enforced disappearances and unlawful deaths, said the ICJ in a report released...
View ArticleTurkey: impunity for the Roboski Massacre (videos)
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the massacre of 34 people in Roboski, Southeast Turkey, and take stock of the continuing lack of accountability and reparations for the victims and their family...
View ArticleLibya: Supreme Judicial Council’s reshuffling threatens the rule of law
The House of Representatives (HoR) must revoke Law No. 11 of 2021 modifying the Supreme Judicial Council’s (SJC) membership, and must stop interfering with the independence of the Libyan judiciary, the...
View ArticleCambodia: New ICJ report highlights intensified human rights violations and...
The Cambodian authorities should immediately reform laws, policies and practices that have led to increasing violations of human rights in the digital sphere, the ICJ said in a new report launched...
View ArticleThe ICJ releases videos on acceso to justice in cases of enforced...
The ICJ launches today a series of videos on access to justice challenges in cases of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in Peru, Colombia and Guatemala; the videos also include...
View ArticleMyanmar: Human Rights and Access to Places of Worship in Myanmar
Today, the ICJ published a paper entitled: “Human Rights and Access to places of worship in Myanmar”, which examines the right of access to places of worship in Myanmar. Presented in a “question and...
View ArticleUzbekistan: ICJ event points to the important role of civil society in human...
Civil society should play an active role in the UN treaty bodies reviews of Uzbekistan’s human rights record, an ICJ event in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, emphasised. Civil society organisations and human...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Training highlights the role of judges in upholding economic...
Judges play a crucial role in ensuring that Uzbekistan implements its international law obligations to protect economic, social and cultural rights, a training seminar for judges in Tashkent,...
View ArticleTunisia: Authorities must end crackdown on political opposition and release...
The Tunisian authorities must immediately release detained opposition politicians Noureddine el-Bhiri and Fathi Baldi and end the abuse of emergency powers to subject members of the political...
View ArticleMyanmar: Conviction of Aung San Suu Kyi after sham trial must immediately be...
The conviction of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi today after an unfair process on trumped-up charges exposes the extent of the military’s control over the judiciary, said the International Commission...
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