Jun 14, 2022 | Events, News
ICJ TRAINING ON EFFECTIVE USE OF UN HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISM
The UN system of human rights protection has a range of instruments which are binding for States that are members of the UN or which are parties to specific instruments. Together they form a complex system of human rights protection which remains available for individuals who allege violations of their rights and those who defend them. Yet, these mechanisms often remain not sufficiently known by practitioners.
Jun 14, 2022 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
The ICJ issued today a statement during the interactive dialogue with the ongoing independent, international commission of inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, denouncing the failure by Israel to ensure accountability for international law violations.
Jun 6, 2022 | Human Rights Committee, Legal submissions, News, Work with the UN
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) made a submission for the Committee’s review of Sri Lanka in its 135th session to be held in June-July 2022. The ICJ brings to the Committee’s attention a select range of areas where Sri Lanka has failed to comply with its ICCPR obligations. This limited submission is without prejudice to numerous other areas in which Sri Lanka may be in violation of the Covenant.
Please find the submission here: ICJ Sri Lanka Submission Human Rights Committee 30 May
May 30, 2022 | Events, News
Thailand must act to minimize torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment by passing a draft law before the Senate that would criminalize such violations, international experts and Thai human rights defenders urged at a workshop co-hosted on 24 May in Bangkok by the International Commission of Jurists (“ICJ”), Thailand’s Ministry of Justice and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
May 26, 2022 | Events, News
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is co-operating on an online summer school organised by Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna on the economic, social and cultural rights of migrant children in the European Union, on the 22-24 and 27-30 June 2022.
