Venezuela: lack of access to safe water aggravates the COVID-19 pandemic
An opinion piece by Carlos Lusverti, ICJ Latin America consultant. (more…)
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New ICJ report on human rights abuses based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression in Colombia, South Africa and Malaysia
For International Transgender Day of Visibility, the ICJ launched a report setting out an overview of States’ legal obligations under the international human rights framework in relation to issues of sexual orientation, gender expression and gender identity, and an analysis of the human rights situation of LGBT persons in Colombia, Malaysia and South Africa. (more…)
The COVID-19 vaccine demands international and national solidarity
An opinion piece by César Landa, ICJ Commissioner from Peru. (more…)
Organizations Call for the Biden Administration to Repeal ICC Sanctions
The ICJ and more than 70 other non-governmental organisations, faith-based groups, and academic institutions urge the Biden Administration to engage constructively with the International Criminal Court (ICC). (more…)
Standing in solidarity with Venezuelan human rights defenders
The recent, ongoing and unwarranted detention of five members of the Venezuelan NGO ‘Azul Positivo’ is one more event in a series of threats, harassment, attacks, restrictions, reprisals and criminal proceedings against Venezuelan civil society organizations and human rights defenders, which has been intensifying since November 2020. (more…)
Venezuela: attacks against freedom of expression must cease immediately
The recent campaigns of stigmatization, harassment, and repression against the media in Venezuela constitute a clear attack against the freedoms of expression and of access to information and infringe upon journalists’ important contributions to expose human rights violations committed by the authorities. (more…)