Following the decision of the Petropavlovsk Court to disbar Sergey Sizintsev the former Executive Director of the National Bar Association, the ICJ reiterates its concerns at the unjustified proceedings against him. (more…)
The ICJ, the Geneva Bar Association and the Geneva legal community have joined forces to launch the ICJ-Geneva Lawyers International Cooperation Initiative. Under the Initiative, Geneva lawyers will join ICJ missions on the five continents to support the independence and integrity of lawyers and judges at risk, and to promote the Rule of Law. (more…)
Ahead of the 2020 review of the human rights treaty body system, the ICJ, together with a number of NGO partners, have made a joint submission to the UN Secretary-General ahead of his third and last biennial report to the UN General Assembly later this year on the status of the human rights treaty body […]
The ICJ today condemned a series of the acts of violence directed against the Muslim community in the aftermath of the Easter attacks on 21 April in Sri Lanka directed at churches and other places. (more…)
The ICJ has joined with more than 35 other international and African NGOs, calling on states to address the ongoing deterioration of the human rights situation in Tanzania, at the upcoming session of the UN Human Rights Council in June. (more…)
The recommendations published today follow the Conference on the Independence of the Legal profession held by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the Council of Europe (CoE) Office in Baku and the Azerbaijan Bar Association (ABA) in Baku, on 15-16 November 2018. (more…)
