Egypt’s Matsda2sh case: end the crackdown on media workers with fake “terrorism” charges
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) strongly condemns the Egyptian authorities’ arbitrary arrest, detention and prosecution of the entire editorial team of the independent fact-checking platform Matsda2sh, under the “Counter-Terrorism” Law, on...
Joint Letter: Addressing Human Rights Abuses During Vietnam’s To Lam’s Visit
Dear President Costa and President von der Leyen, We are writing to urge you to raise grave concerns over the Vietnamese government’s intensifying repression during the upcoming visit to Brussels of To Lam, Vietnam’s President and Communist Party General Secretary....
Czech Republic: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child finds that immigration detention of children violated the prohibition of arbitrary detention and ill-treatment
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) recently delivered a landmark decision in a case involving immigration detention of children. In Jas.K.B. and Others v the Czech Republic (communication No. 193/2022), the Committee found that the State party had violated the rights of two sisters under articles 3 and 37(a) and (b) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, guaranteeing the child best interests principle and their freedom from torture or other ill-treatment and from arbitrary detention, respectively. The Committee’s decision reaffirms the obligations of States towards migrant children. The ICJ, the AIRE Centre, the Dutch Council for Refugees and the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) had intervened in the case by filing a legal brief with the Committee.
UN Human Rights Council once again navigates troubled waters to protect human rights in crisis situations, despite global setbacks.
The United Nations is presently grappling with major restructuring likely to involve significant changes, while the process for electing a new Secretary-General is nearing its conclusion. Amidst this instability and uncertainty, the UN’s main human rights body, the...
Joint statement: States Must Act Now to Protect the International Criminal Court from Unlawful US Sanctions
The Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC), the more than 120 undersigned organisations from over 60 countries representing all regions, and dozens of legal experts, human rights defenders and members of the European Parliament, condemn unequivocally...Recent News
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