The Ukrainian justice system should be bolstered in order to provide effective access to justice and accountability during and following the war, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said in a briefing paper published today. The paper provides a preliminary assessment of the impact of the ongoing armed conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine […]
A letter by the ICJ and six other organizations was sent to EU governments ahead of the General Affairs Council hearing of the Hungarian government under the Article 7(1) TEU procedure on 18 November 2022. (more…)
On Wednesday 30 November 10.00-11.30 CET, the International Commission of Jurists is organizing a webinar on Care for migrant children in the EU: Case management and integrating migrant children in mainstream child protection systems. The webinar will discuss the needs of children out of care that also apply to migrant children, and consequently how to […]
On 25 October 2022, a conference “Fight against torture: experience and achievements” was held in Tajikistan, co-organised by the ICJ in collaboration with the Coalition against Torture and Impunity, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Tajikistan and the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe. The conference addressed the problem of torture and the need for more effective […]
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), the AIRE Centre and the Global Campus of human rights have submitted a joint third party intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in the case of a A.D. v Malta, concerning the detention of a child seeking asylum in Malta. […]
The ICJ has intervened as a third party before the European Court of Human Rights in a case concerning the involuntary transfers of judges and the consequences of such transfers for the independence of the judiciary. The case of Kurtoğlu Karacık v Türkiye concerns the transfer of several judges to new locations by decision of […]
