ICJ Training on effective use of UN Human Rights Mechanism for lawyers in Turkey
ICJ TRAINING ON EFFECTIVE USE OF UN HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISM The UN system of human rights protection has a range of instruments which are binding for States that are members of the UN or which are...
View ArticleCambodia: Mass convictions of opposition politicians and human rights...
Yesterday’s mass convictions of opposition party members and human rights defenders on spurious charges should be overturned and the legal provisions used to prosecute them should be repealed or...
View ArticleAvoiding Overreach: Shaping State Responses to Anti-LGBTI Online Hate Speech...
An opinion piece by Daron Tan, ICJ Associate International Legal Adviser, Asia and the Pacific Programme. 18 June 2022 marks the inaugural International Day for Countering Hate Speech, as proclaimed by...
View ArticleConsensus statement from civil society and academic institutions calls for a...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is part of a coalition of 17 civil society organizations and academic institutions, convened by GENDRO, calling for a gender-responsive international...
View ArticleAccess to lawyers must be ensured for anti-war protesters in the Russian...
The months following the Russian Federation’s military invasion in Ukraine have been marked, in Russia itself, by a wave of protests against the invasion and systematic official suppression of...
View ArticleNepal: Regular monitoring of places of detention is indispensable to prevent...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in coordination with the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) organized a workshop on 17 and 18 June 2022 with the Attorney General, Chief Attorneys (CAs)...
View ArticleICJ joint statement on same sex relationships in Sri Lanka
ICJ joins hands with ILGA Asia, Amnesty International, and Equal Ground to issue a statement on same-sex relationships in Sri Lanka. A joint statement by ILGA Asia, Amnesty International, Equal Ground,...
View ArticleSingapore: Drop investigations and cease harassment against human rights...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and 6 other human rights organizations urgently call on the Singaporean authorities to drop their criminal investigations of human rights defenders Kirsten...
View ArticleThe Russian Federation: Arbitrarily detained Bar Association President Dmitry...
The ICJ condemns the arrest and the criminal charging of Dmitry Talantov, the President of the Bar Association of Udmurtia region, on 28 June 2022, for exercising his right to freedom of expression....
View ArticleFundamentally flawed: Tunisia’s ‘constitution-making’ process
Tunisia’s President, Kais Saied, has instigated and set in motion a process aimed at replacing the country’s existing consensus-based 2014 constitution in a way that is devoid of any legal basis,...
View ArticleVenezuela: Civil society under continuous siege
An opinion piece by Carlos Lusverti, Latin America Legal Consultant at the International Commission of Jurists. A number of authoritarian countries, from Russia to Cambodia to Nicaragua have recently...
View ArticleThailand: ICJ Workshop participants say authorities must do more to prevent...
Thailand’s Senate must pass a draft law that would criminalize enforced disappearances and do more to put an end to such violations, international experts and Thai human rights defenders urged at a...
View ArticlePhilippines: SEC order to shut down Rappler violates freedom of expression
The order of the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that will effectively shut down the operations of Rappler, Inc., an independent digital media company that has been critical of the...
View ArticleSecuring the Right to Affordable Housing in the Face of Corrosive...
The practice of treating precious housing stock as a mere commodity for speculative investment, rather than as a critical social good needed to fulfill a human rights guarantee, has run rampant in many...
View ArticleUN Human Rights Council holds the line on SOGI and gender equality, keeps...
As it concludes its 50th session, the UN Human Rights Council has shown that it can act to address the human rights situations in countries in crisis, such as Libya, Syria, Belarus, Afghanistan, Sudan...
View ArticleTürkiye: Following new European Court judgment, Osman Kavala must be...
Türkiye’s authorities must immediately free human rights defender and philanthropist Osman Kavala, after a damning judgment of the European Court of Human Rights held the State did not act in good...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Upholding Rule of Law is the need of the hour
Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa should immediately submit his promised resignation and the Sri Lankan Parliament should immediately convene and follow a transition process in accordance with...
View ArticleLesotho: Law enforcement officials must be held accountable for...
The Transformation Resource Centre (TRC), the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) condemn the killing of a university student and an apparently...
View ArticleLibya: Human rights and rule of law principles must guide security sector reform
Ensuring that the military, security forces and intelligence services are accountable through civilian oversight and control is key to attaining political stability and enduring peace in Libya, the...
View ArticleTunisia: Proposed constitution codifies authoritarianism
In a briefing published today, the International Commission of Jurists cautions that the adoption of the proposed Constitution would return Tunisia to an autocratic constitutional order. هذا البيان...
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