Greece: ICJ and ECRE call the European Committee of Social Rights to ensure Greece’s compliance with migrant and refugee children’s rights
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) have submitted comments to the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) on the follow-up to the collective complaint ICJ and ECRE v. Greece. The submission comments...
One step forward and one step back in the pursuit of justice for atrocity crimes committed in Syria
© Photo by Ahmed Akacha On 25 July 2025, the French Court of Cassation overturned an arrest warrant against former Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, for his alleged role in chemical weapons attacks on the city of Douma and the Eastern Ghouta region of Syria in August...
ECtHR: ICJ and partners intervene in a case against Malta concerning a transgender asylum seeker’s risk of persecution and arbitrary detention
On 23 July 2025, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the AIRE Centre, the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, the Dutch Council for Refugees, Trans Europe and Central Asia and the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and...
Thailand: Joint statement urges Thai authorities to drop charges against human rights defender Pimsiri Petchnamrob and end judicial harassment of peaceful protesters
GENEVA, Switzerland (18 June 2025) – We, the undersigned civil society organizations, are deeply concerned over the ongoing abuse of judicial processes against Thai women human rights defender Pimsiri Petchnamrob. From 4 to 6 June 2025, court hearings against Pimsiri...
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The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is concerned by the recent response of the Swiss Federal Council (i.e., the Swiss government) to ruling of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the landmark case Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland.
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