Sri Lanka: Immediately Revoke Emergency Regulations
The Sri Lankan government must immediately revoke emergency regulations that once again, and contrary to international law, grant abusively extensive powers of search, detention, prosecution and...
View ArticleNepal: Amend Transitional Justice Bill
The Nepali government’s bill to amend its current transitional justice law marks some progress toward accountability but will not fully provide justice to victims or meet Nepal’s obligations under...
View ArticleMyanmar: Execution of pro-democracy activists following a closed-door trial...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) joins in the international condemnation of the executions of four pro-democracy activists in Myanmar following grossly unfair trials contrary to...
View ArticleTunisia: a rigged referendum delivers Constitution threatening democracy and...
Just over a quarter of the eligible electorate cast their vote in the 25 July constitutional referendum. Nonetheless, a new, autocratic Constitution, which is not supported by the majority of Tunisians...
View ArticleNepal: Amendment bill to Transitional Justice Act needs revision
Nepal: The current amendment bill to the Transitional Justice Act needs to be revised to ensure respect for the right of victims to truth, justice and reparation 29 July 2022 On 15 July 2022, a “Bill...
View ArticleTajikistan: detained protesters should be given immediate access to lawyers
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) calls on Tajikistan’s authorities to ensure that those arrested and charged in relation to the recent protests in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Regulatory authority’s bar on properly qualified non-citizen...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) are disappointed by the 2 August judgment of the South African Constitutional Court in the Relebohile Cecilia Rafoneke v...
View ArticleSri Lanka: End government crackdown on peaceful protestors
The International Commission of Jurists is part of a group of 13 organizations that have issued a joint statement condemning the Sri Lankan authorities’ violent crackdown and increasing reprisals...
View ArticleICJ calls on South Africa’s Government to protect lawyers and their independence
The staff of the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) – a South African human rights non-profit organisation – have received death threats and other threats of violence, forcing the...
View ArticleSingapore: Halt executions and cease punitive cost orders against death-row...
Singapore’s authorities must immediately halt any impending executions, and cease using punitive cost orders against lawyers representing death-row inmates, said the International Commission of Jurists...
View ArticleSRI LANKA: 22nd Amendment Bill Does Not Guarantee Sufficient Checks and Balances
The Sri Lankan Parliament should reject the ‘22nd Amendment to the Constitution Bill’ and, instead, should amend the Constitution to remove the President’s unfettered authority, said the International...
View ArticleVenezuela: UN Human Rights Council Should Renew Experts’ Mandate
The United Nations Human Rights Council should renew the mandate of its Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela, 125 national and international organizations, including the...
View ArticleThailand: Indictment of park officials for killing of “Billy” is a...
The indictment of Chaiwat Limlikit-aksorn, former chief of Kaeng Krachan National Park, and three other park officials for the premeditated murder of Karen activist Pholachi “Billy” Rakchongcharoen...
View ArticleIsrael/Palestine: Israeli authorities must lift prohibitions on human rights...
Today the ICJ condemned the actions by the Israeli authorities to forcibly close the offices of seven leading Palestinian human rights organizations, effectively obliterating much of the critical human...
View ArticleAfrican Region: Internet shutdowns and other overreaching restrictions...
Experts at a panel discussion convened to launch the ICJ’s Legal Guidance on Internet Shutdowns and Restrictions in Africa, live-streamed on 11 August, called attention to the wide-ranging human rights...
View ArticleThailand: Government and companies must effectively implement commitments...
The draft Second National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (2023-2027) (NAP), now being considered in a public hearing (2 August to 19 September), must be reviewed to ensure its consistency...
View ArticleMekong Region: ICJ convenes a meeting with stakeholders to address the human...
The ICJ, together with Chulalongkorn University’s Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS), held a consultative meeting on 10 August 2022 with a wide range of stakeholders involved in helping the...
View ArticleUganda: Supreme Court Justice Esther Kisaakye must be granted a fair hearing...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is concerned about allegations of arbitrary and unfair treatment against Ugandan Supreme Court Justice Esther Kisakye and the implications it may carry for...
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Nepal: National judicial dialogue to promote women’s access to justice
Nepal: ICJ hosts a national judicial dialogue to promote women’s access to justice with trial court judges 6 September 2022 “Judges should take concrete steps to break barriers that women are still...
View ArticleNepal: The role of the justice sector is key to ensuring the right to...
Education is a human right and not a commodity, and lawyers and judges are instrumental in ensuring the State fulfill its obligation to provide public education and to regulate private education...
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