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, Uzbekistan, heard this week.
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.
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 and whereabouts, and deliver justice to him and his family.
On 9 December 2021, the ICJ and 11 other organizations co-hosted an online panel discussion entitled: “Time to Fight Against SLAPPs in Southeast Asia”.
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 Mantello, Italy, to reflect on the human rights dimensions of public health emergencies, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Lebanon: Ensure Draft Media Law Upholds Free Expression
Nepal: Protesters Demand Integrity, Rights, Rule of Law
India: Joint statement urging Indian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release human rights defender and student activist Umar Khalid
HRC60: Statement by the International Commission of Jurists in the Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence