Disappearance of human rights lawyer
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers urged today the Thai Government to conduct an urgent investigation into the disappearance of a well-known human rights lawyer.
South Africa-Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status Act (2003)
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Urgent call for ICJ world-wide intervention : Human Rights Lawyer barred from leaving his country
The ICJ requests its entire network to call on their respective Governments to intervene with the Government of Syria to allow Mr. Haythem al-Maleh, a Syrian lawyer and human rights activist, to leave the country.
Sudan: arbitrary arrest and incommunicado detention of human rights lawyer
The ICJ called on the Sudanese authorities to put an end to the incommunicado detention of Mr. Salih Mahmoud Osman and to either charge him with an offence or immediately release him.
Non-citizens and the administration of criminal justice: submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Today, the ICJ and other rights groups submitted an intervention to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, recalling the international human rights of non-citizens.
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