Jun 14, 2024 | Advocacy, Cases, News
The ICJ is concerned by the declaratory and non-binding decision of the National Council, the Swiss Parliament’s lower chamber, on 12 June 2024, inviting the Federal Council, the Swiss Government, effectively to ignore the landmark ruling of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland.
Jun 12, 2024 | Advocacy, Op-eds
Carlos Lusverti Latin America Legal advisor International Commission of Jurists The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela (FFM), established by the UN’s Human Rights Council in 2019, concluded that Venezuelan authorities use arbitrary...
Jun 3, 2024 | Advocacy, News
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) condemns the decision of the Matriya Misdemeanor Court of Appeal in Cairo to uphold the conviction and one-year prison sentence of prominent political opponent Ahmad Tantawi on 27 May 2024. The Matriya Misdemeanor Court in...
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 27, 2024 | Advocacy, Publications
The notion of consent in the UN Treaty Bodies’ general comments and jurisprudence
May 27, 2024 | Advocacy, Cases, News
With the trial of nine defendants accused of the Pylos shipwreck of 14 June 2023 scheduled to begin on 21 May, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) calls on the Greek prosecutorial authorities to drop the charges against the accused and to conduct an independent and effective investigation into the circumstances of the shipwreck.