Apr 25, 2025 | Advocacy, Legal submissions, News
On 25 April 2025, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), together with the Advice on Individual Rights in Europe Centre (AIRE Centre) and the European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) submitted a joint third-party intervention before the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the case of H.A.M. v. Denmark. The case concerns the expulsion on criminal grounds of a Somali individual with disabilities from Denmark, after over 30 years of asylum.
Sep 18, 2024 | Legal submissions, News
On 9 September 2024, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) submitted a report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in preparation for its upcoming review of Lao PDR’s compliance with its obligations under the Convention on the...
Aug 19, 2024 | Advocacy, Legal submissions, News
On 16 August 2024, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) submitted a legal brief (amicus curiae) to the Bangkok Criminal Court, in the context of the proceedings arising from Vietnam’s request to Thailand for the extradition of Y Quynh Bdap, a refugee...
Aug 7, 2024 | Advocacy, Cases, Legal submissions, News
As the Constitutional Court begins deliberations in a highly consequential case concerning sexual abuse in the South African Military, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has submitted argument that South Africa bears obligations under international law to ensure that courts and tribunals, including military courts, are competent, independent, impartial and allow for a fair and public hearing.
May 29, 2024 | Legal submissions, News
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Forum for Human Rights (FORUM) submitted written comments to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case Hlaváček v. the Czech Republic. The intervention concerns procedural guarantees of children below the...
May 14, 2024 | Advocacy, Legal submissions
The International Commission of Jurists, the Organisation Intersex International Europe and the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association jointly file a third-party intervention before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in a case concerning the South African athlete Caster Semenya.
