EU: ICJ urges continued scrutiny of Hungary and Poland under Article 7 TEU
Ahead of the upcoming General Affairs Council meeting on 25 June, the ICJ and other organizations call on EU Ministers in a joint letter to take the Article 7.1 TEU procedure against Hungary forward and issue recommendations.
HRC56: ICJ Statement on OPT-Israel Report
As the UN HRC56 has just discussed today the report of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestine Territory (OPT) and Israel, the ICJ commends this report that concludes that Israeli authorities, members of the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian armed...
Thailand: Joint letter to the Minister of Justice regarding the abuse of judicial process, arbitrary detention, and Netiporn Sanesangkhom’s death in custody
On 14 June 2024, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) joined several human rights organizations in expressing concern over the arbitrary use of criminal proceedings and detention to target human rights defenders, activists and protesters solely for exercising...
Thailand: investigations into alleged cases of torture, ill-treatment, and enforced disappearance must comply with international human rights law and standards
Thai justice sector actors, government authorities, medical professionals, and officers of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRCT) have undertaken discussions on how to improve and make effective investigations of torture, other ill-treatment,...
Switzerland: ICJ expresses concern over Parliament’s rejection of the European Court ruling
The ICJ is concerned by the declaratory and non-binding decision of the National Council, the Swiss Parliament’s lower chamber, on 12 June 2024, inviting the Federal Council, the Swiss Government, effectively to ignore the landmark ruling of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland.
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