In a new briefing paper issued today, the ICJ calls on the Thai authorities to cease all arbitrary restrictions on the right to freedom of expression as a result of the enforcement of new regulations and existing laws purportedly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Indigenous communities in Thailand described the particular hardship they have faced during the Covid-19 pandemic in a discussion with Thai government officials, United Nations representatives and civil society organized by the ICJ, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Amnesty International Thailand.
The Thai authorities must ensure that human rights are fully protected in any emergency measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including those taken pursuant to the repeatedly renewed Emergency Decree, the ICJ said in a new briefing paper.
Security forces in eSwatini must respect the right to peaceful assembly and protest in anticipation of a scheduled demonstration demanding reforms to the country’s absolute monarchy, said the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today.
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has made a submission to the Human Rights Council’s (HRC) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Moldova.
Turkish lawmakers should reject the proposed extension of unnecessary emergency powers for three more years, and instead end the corrosive impact of these powers on human rights and the rule of law, said the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today.
Palestine/Israel: Israel must immediately stop its criminal forcible displacement in Gaza
HRC59: ICJ Statement in the interactive dialogue on the High Commissioner’s report on Venezuela – addressing arbitrary detention and repression of civic space
HRC59: Joint statement during interactive dialogue on Myanmar – addressing ongoing atrocity crimes and the collapse of judicial independence
HRC59: Joint statement during the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Belarus – condemning repression of lawyers and the erosion of judicial independence