Nov 15, 2024 | Advocacy, Joint Statement, News
Lawyers for Lawyers, the Observatoire International des Avocats en Danger, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, the International Commission of Jurists, the Law Society of England and Wales, the Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe, Front Line Defenders, and the Alliance for Lawyers at Risk strongly condemn the violent raid on 7 November on the home of Crimean human rights defenders and lawyers Lilia Hemedzhy and Rustem Kyamilev, resulting in the arbitrary arrest and detention of Rustem Kyamilev.
Nov 13, 2024 | Advocacy, News
The Libyan authorities must not re-establish the “morality” police and must refrain from cracking down on women’s human rights any further, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said today. On 6 November 2024, Emad Trabelsi, the Interior Minister of the...
Nov 13, 2024 | Advocacy, News
The ICJ’s new briefing paper, Never in the best interests of the child: Risks of child detention in the screening and border procedures under the 2024 EU Migration Pact, critically examines the detention of child migrants under the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum and analyses relevant international human rights law and standards.
Nov 11, 2024 | News, Statements
Ghanaian organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) and other civil society organizations (CSOs) have welcomed the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ (the Committee’s) concluding observations on Ghana and called on the Ghanaian...
Nov 8, 2024 | News, Web Stories
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today welcomed the UN Human Rights Committee’s Concluding Observations and recommendations on Pakistan following the Committee’s review of the country’s second periodic report under the International Covenant on Civil and...
Nov 6, 2024 | Advocacy, News, Open letters, Press Releases
Today, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and other non-governmental organizations call on Member States of the UN Human Rights Council to urgently convene a Special Session on the situation in Lebanon to establish an international investigative mechanism...
