EU: New Report on Strategic Litigation of Judicial Independence
The report, Justice Under Pressure: Strategic Litigation of Judicial Independence in Europe, published by ICJ and Human Rights in Practice, provides a comprehensive overview of standards and practices on strategic litigation to defend judicial independence and accountability in Europe.
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The Coalition for the International Criminal Court and more than 120 of its member non-governmental organisations and coalitions from around the globe strongly oppose efforts by the United States of America (US) to impose sanctions related to the International...
#WCED: 1st World Congress on Enforced Disappearances
To this day, the crime of enforced disappearance remains widespread across the world and widely unprosecuted, with devastating repercussions on entire societies. This year, the ICJ is co-sponsoring the 1st World Congress in Geneva on Enforced Disappearances on 15-16...
The Price of Complicity: Tunisia-EU Partnership Agreement Fuels Serious Abuses Against Refugees, Asylum-Seekers and Migrants
Today, on International Migrants Day, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) published a briefing paper calling on the Tunisian authorities to immediately halt all collective expulsions and inhuman treatment of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants. The ICJ...
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