ICJ responds to concerns about interference with integrity and independence...
The ICJ today replied to lawyers and legal academics regarding concerns expressed about statements by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice in Canada concerning Chief Justice Beverly...
View ArticleThe ICJ urges Chinese authorities to release lawyers
China must immediately release all lawyers detained for carrying out their professional functions or for exercising their human rights, the ICJ said in a letter today to President Xi Jinping. The...
View ArticleArab League should postpone action to establish a court of human rights
The ICJ and other rights groups today sent an open letter to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the member States of the League of Arab States (LAS) urging them to defer action on the adoption of the...
View ArticleEgypt: ICJ and others urge UN Human Rights Council action
The International Commission of Jurists has joined other non-governmental organisations to urge the UN Human Rights Council to take action on the situation in Egypt. The organisations urge the Human...
View ArticleICJ joins NGO statement to Human Rights Council on drones
The ICJ joined several other international organisations in today’s open letter to the UN Human Rights Council sharing concerns about State practices of targeted killings and the use of armed drones....
View ArticleBahrain: Maryam Al-Khawaja eventually released but clampdown on civil society...
The ICJ has joined more than 150 other NGO in condemning the politically motivated arrest of human rights defender and co-director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, Maryam Al-Khawaja on 30 August....
View ArticleHuman Rights Council must not allow procedural tactics to prevent debate
The ICJ today joined International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) and other NGOs in emphasising that members of the UN Human Rights Council must reject procedural tactics that prevent the Council from...
View ArticleNGOs urge states to defend civil society resolution at Human Rights Council
The ICJ today joined 42 other NGOs to express deep concern regarding proposed amendments to the draft resolution on civil society space at the UN Human Rights Council. The draft resolution on civil...
View ArticleUrgent request for a United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) Special...
The ICJ has joined other non-governmental organisations to urge the HRC and its members to support a Special Session on Libya. The aim is to establish a Commission of Inquiry or a similar mechanism to...
View ArticleBolivia: politicians’ “trial” of judges an affront to the independence of the...
The ICJ condemns the imminent “trial” of Constitutional Court judges by Bolivia’s Senate, in proceedings that could see the judges sent to prison over politicians’ disagreement with a legal ruling. The...
View ArticleICJ joins in call for attention to deteriorating human rights situation in Egypt
The ICJ today joined a call with six other international NGOs for members and observers of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to pay special attention to the deteriorating human rights situation in...
View ArticleICJ welcomes General Assembly’s Third Committee’s adoption of resolution on...
The ICJ welcomes the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee’s adoption of resolution A/C.3/69/L.47 on Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on 19 November most recently. The resolution, which...
View ArticleNGOs call for UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy
The ICJ today joins with dozens of other NGOs from around the world in an open letter calling for the UN Human Rights Council to establish a Special Rapporteur on Privacy at its current session. The UN...
View ArticleICJ sends letter to Philippine Congress on draft law against torture
The ICJ transmitted today a letter to the Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights of the House of Representatives of the Philippines responding to the position taken by the Philippines’ Department of...
View ArticleNGOs urge rejection of proposed new UN resolution on terrorism and human rights
The ICJ today joined other NGOs in an open letter urging States at the UN Human Rights Council not to support a draft resolution on the ‘Effects of Terrorism on the Enjoyment of Human Rights’ in its...
View ArticleMalaysia: draft Prevention of Terrorism Act prone to abuse and violates human...
The draft Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) should either be rejected or amended by the parliament of Malaysia, said the ICJ today in an open letter to the Speaker of the Lower House of the Parliament...
View ArticleCivil society declaration on Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s visit to...
The statement has been endorsed by more than 100 civil society groups, including the ICJ, with representation in more than 25 African states, following Omar al-Bashir’s travel to South Africa from June...
View ArticleSri Lanka: concrete benchmarks needed to demonstrate progress on justice and...
The ICJ today joined other organisations in urging Sri Lanka and the international community to measure progress against three key tests before September 2015, to assess the Government’s willingness...
View ArticleCambodia: withdraw draft law on associations and non-governmental...
The ICJ and 39 other international NGOs have sent a letter to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen calling on the withdrawal of a law which appears designed to restrict the legitimate activities of civil...
View ArticleNepal: Time and change needed to fulfill promises for a new Constitution
In a briefing paper released today, and an accompanying letter to Nepal’s Constituent Assembly, the ICJ raises a number of concerns about Nepal’s Draft Constitution. The Constituent Assembly’s...
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