Jun 16, 2015 | Events, News
The ICJ is organizing this workshop from 22 to 24 June 2015 at the Imba Matombo Lodge in Harare, Zimbabwe. The meeting will bring together legal practitioners, judges and prosecutors involved in human rights legal accountability of business enterprises.
The workshop will have a special focus on children’s rights as a particularly vulnerable group, but will cover human rights broadly.
Its objective is to create a pool of jurists with the knowledge and ability to undertake strategic litigation before national or regional courts in the interest of victims of human rights abuse by business corporations in the Southern and Eastern Africa regions.
It specific objectives are to provide legal and other tools to community representatives and litigators who want to start strategic litigation in the public interest ; to provide opportunities to establish a link with international lawyers and groups to help in litigation in other countries ; and to provide information on available resources, mechanisms, and strategies for effective litigation.
Email applications can be sent to Dr Carlos Lopez: carlos.lopez(a)icj.org ; or Otto Saki: otto.saki(a)icj.org
Jun 16, 2015 | News
On 17 June, the ICJ will observe proceedings before the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic concerning searches of the workplace and homes of lawyers Valerian Vakhitov and Khusanbay Salieyv by law enforcement agents.
The case concerns confidentiality of lawyer-client communications and seizure of lawyers’ files, in light of the prohibition of arbitrary interference with privacy, correspondence, and home.
The Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic is to consider the challenge of the Prosecutor’s Office to the decision of the Regional Osh Court of 30 April 2015.
The prosecutor also seeks disciplinary measures against the judges of the Regional Court who decided in favour of the protection of the professional guarantees of lawyers, ruling that the searches and seizures of documents were illegal.
The ICJ trial observation mission includes Olga Zimareva, a lawyer practicing in the Russian Federation and Almaz Osmanova, a lawyer in the Kyrgyz Republic and chair of the Central Asian League of Lawyers.
Following the conclusion of the case, the ICJ will publish its analysis of the proceedings and the judgment of the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic in light of international human rights law and international standards on the independence of the judiciary and the role of lawyers.
Contact:
Róisín Pillay, Director, Europe Programme, roisin.pillay(a)icj.org
Temur Shakirov, Legal Adviser, Europe Programme, temur.shakirov(a)icj.org
Kyrgyzstan-Trial observation-News-Web story-2015-RUS (full text in PDF, Russian)
Jun 11, 2015 | News
Durante los días 8 y 11 de Junio una misión de la CIJ ha visitado Uruguay para discutir con autoridades, víctimas y la sociedad civil el estado de la lucha contra la impunidad para las violaciones de los derechos humanos cometidas durante el periodo dictatorial.
Jun 10, 2015 | News
The ICJ today welcomed the opinion by The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) condemning as arbitrary the detention of prominent human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko and calling on the Government of Swaziland to ensure his immediate release.
Jun 10, 2015 | News
The ICJ today welcomed the decision of a Tunisian constitutional commission declaring a new law on the High Judicial Council (HJC) to be unconstitutional
Jun 9, 2015 | News
The ICJ today organized a diplomatic dialogue, in advance of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), with ambassadors and high-level diplomatic representatives, to share the state of human rights in Myanmar.
