eSwatini: ICJ urges multinational mobile telecommunications company MTN to...
In a letter dated 8 July 2021, ICJ expressed its concerns that the MTN Group has agreed to implement an unlawful request from the Swazi government to disrupt internet access in eSwatini. Largely,...
View ArticleJoint letter: Renewal of United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Libya of...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) joined several human rights organizations in signing the following letter, urging state representatives at the Human Rights Council to ensure the extension...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Copyright law must allow for enhanced accessibility of reading...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Equal Education Law Centre (EELC), in a joint submission urged the South African Parliament to act to ensure that reading materials are made more...
View ArticleThailand: Organizations express concern regarding the right to peaceful assembly
ICJ along with 12 civil society organizations, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, expressing concern regarding the right to peaceful assembly in Thailand. 1 September 2021 Prime...
View ArticleUganda: Government must reverse suppression of 54 NGOs
Uganda’s government must immediately reverse its effort to suppress the work of 54 civil society organizations, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said today. On Friday 3 September, the ICJ...
View ArticleHuman Rights Council: Establish an International Investigative Mission into...
Joint Letter to the Human Rights Council calling for an International Investigative Mission into the Beirut Blast هذه الرسالة المشتركة متوفرة باللغة العربية أيضاً To the Permanent Representatives of...
View ArticleEgypt : Global Legal Community Stands in Solidarity with Egyptian Lawyer...
We, the undersigned members of the global legal community, stand in solidarity with Egyptian lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer as he awaits his verdict on baseless criminal charges on December 20, 2021,...
View ArticleLetter to President Biden on Thailand’s abusive draft law on not-for-profit...
Below is the full text of the letter in English (you can find it in Thai here): May 12, 2022 President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. The White House Washington, DC Re: Thailand’s abusive draft law on...
View ArticleICJ and other organizations urge states to continue public debates on the...
Ahead of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council’s 50th session (HRC50) between 13 June and 8 July 2022, the International Commission of Jurists and 52 other non-governmental organizations have...
View ArticleJoint Open Letter: Human rights organizations call for renewal of UN...
The undersigned organizations call on member and observer States of the UN Human Rights Council to support the renewal of the UN Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) mandate on Libya, as a matter of urgency, at...
View ArticleThailand: Lawmakers should expedite the enactment of the Draft Prevention and...
Today, the ICJ, along with five other international human rights organizations, submitted a letter to the President of the Senate and the Chair of the Extraordinary Committee Considering the Draft...
View ArticleYemen’s Supertanker Crisis: An open letter to US, UK, EU member states, and...
The FSO Safer, an oil storage tanker moored 32 nautical miles from the key Yemeni port city of Hodeida, could explode or rupture at any time, threatening an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe,...
View ArticleJoint NGO Letter: International Accountability Critical to Achieving Justice...
UN-led independent, international, and criminally focused investigation is required As civil society organizations from Yemen and around the world we urge United Nations (UN) member states to work...
View ArticleThailand: Officials must drop all ongoing prosecutions under the Emergency...
Today, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), along with 23 other international human rights organizations from the region, submitted a letter to the Ambassadors of respective countries with a...
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EU: Joint NGO letter to EU ministers ahead of their hearing of Hungary on...
The letter by the ICJ and six other organizations was sent to EU governments ahead of the General Affairs Council hearing of the Hugarian government under the Article 7(1) TEU procedure on 18 November...
View ArticleEgypt: Continued repression of Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)...
Open letter to the Embassies of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America to...
View ArticleOn International Human Rights Day, Yemen is a critical test of global...
In Arab Countries, International Advocacy Program by CIHRS December 10, 2022 International Human Rights Day, 10 December, commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and...
View ArticleJoint letter: UN Human Rights Council should ensure meaningful follow-up on...
6 March 2023 UN Human Rights Council should ensure meaningful follow-up on the human rights situation in Libya Your Excellency, In July 2022 the Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted resolution 50/23...
View ArticleVietnam: Cease spurious criminal investigation against human rights lawyer...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) submitted an open letter to Vietnam’s Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Public Security to denounce the ongoing criminal investigation of Dang Dinh Manh...
View ArticleMyanmar: ICJ calls for the protection of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and...
The ICJ today denounced before the UN Human Rights Council the systematic impunity enjoyed by the military junta and other members of the military for gross human rights violations against many of...
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