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Lebanon: Israel must immediately stop using unlawful mass displacement orders and inflicting terror on civilians
Image: Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike on the village of...
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Olympics: Sex Testing Harms All Women and Girls
International Olympic Committee has no right to become ‘gender police’ of the...
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Erosion Of Fair Trial Rights And Threats To Lawyers in Myanmar
United Nations Human Rights Council 61st Regular Session Agenda Item 4 ...
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Systematic Attacks And Judicial Harassment Against Lawyers In Belarus
61st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council Item 4: Interactive...
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El Salvador: Crimes against humanity within the framework of public security policy
The International Group of Experts for the Investigation of Human Rights Violations...
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HRC61: Joint oral statement of The ICJ in the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Counter-terrorism and Human Rights
United Nations Human Rights Council 61st Regular Session Agenda Item 3 Oral...
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Tajikistan: barriers faced by survivors of gender-based violence
Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a serious and persistent human rights concern in...
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Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT): Pursuing Accountability for Reproductive Violence as Genocide
Side Event at the Human Rights Council’s 60th Session At the...
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HRC61: ICJ Statement on attacks against the rule of law and independent legal professionals — highlighting situations in Afghanistan and Guatemala
United Nations Human Rights Council 61st Regular Session Agenda Item 2 General...
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Iran/United States/Israel: Unlawful attacks must cease
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) condemns the armed attack by the...
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The Use of Anti-Terrorism Courts to Suppress Dissent in Venezuela
This briefing paper by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) analyzes the...
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Nepal: Publish Reports on Violent Crackdowns on Protests
Political parties Should Commit to Accountability; Completing Transitional Justice (London, February 13,...
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EU: ICJ publishes strategic litigation guide on children and immigration detention
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has published the Guide on strategic...
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Myanmar: Five years after the coup “justice system” remains an instrument of repression
Geneva, 1 February 2026 As Myanmar marks five-years since its military unlawfully...
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Türkiye: Conviction of Kurdish lawyers is an affront to justice and undermines the independence of the legal profession
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) deplores the conviction of ten lawyers,...
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Joint Statements: Negotiations on the Convention on Crimes against Humanity
The International Commission of Jurists welcomes the opportunity to support States in...
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Iran: immediately stop mass killings of protestors and other atrocities and end impunity
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) strongly condemns the Iranian authorities’ egregious...
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Kazakhstan: Drop licence revocation proceedings against lawyer Adam Murat
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) expresses serious concern at the civil...
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Türkiye: ICJ welcomes acquittal of Istanbul Bar Association leadership and urges an end to the criminalization of the legal profession
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) welcomes the 26th Istanbul Heavy Penal...
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Tunisia: Quash the unjust conviction of civil society actors and others for upholding migrants’ and refugees’ human rights and release those arbitrarily detained
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) strongly condemns the Tunis First Instance...
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Tunisia: End arbitrary criminal proceedings against Tunisian judges’ association President Anas Hmedi
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) firmly condemns the Tunisian authorities’ initiation...
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Thailand: New sexual harassment law a step in the right direction, albeit concerns remain
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today welcomes the 30 December 2025...
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United States/Venezuela: Territorial sovereignty, the rule of law and human rights must be guaranteed and respected
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) condemns the attacks by the United...
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Uzbekistan: ICJ convenes Expert Discussion on strengthening implementation of UN Treaty Bodies
On 19 December 2025, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), together with...
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Kyrgyz Republic: ICJ welcomes Constitutional Court ruling blocking reintroduction of the death penalty
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) welcomes the recent decision of the...
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Laos: After 13 years, renewed international action needed to ensure justice in Sombath Somphone’s enforced disappearance
15 December 2025. On the 13-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of...
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Uzbekistan: ICJ launches Winter School on international human rights law
The International Commission of Jurists today opened its Winter School on international...
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