Aug 7, 2024 | Advocacy, Cases, Legal submissions, News
As the Constitutional Court begins deliberations in a highly consequential case concerning sexual abuse in the South African Military, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has submitted argument that South Africa bears obligations under international law to ensure that courts and tribunals, including military courts, are competent, independent, impartial and allow for a fair and public hearing.
Aug 7, 2024 | Events, News, Web Stories
On 13-14 July and 6-7 August 2024, human rights defenders and civil society organizations from various regions of Thailand gathered to discuss shortcomings in the country’s compliance with its obligations under the UN Convention against Torture. Participants attended...
Aug 6, 2024 | Advocacy, News
On 1 August 2024, an investigating judge of the Economic and Financial Judicial Pole at the Tunis Court of First Instance remanded Bensedrine in pre-trial detention following her interrogation on charges of “forgery” of the 2019 final report of Tunisia’s Truth and...
Aug 5, 2024 | Events, Web Stories
At a Judicial Dialogue convened in Surkhet, Karnali Province, on 19 and 20 April 2024 by the International Commission of Jurists, Advocacy Forum Nepal and the Judges’ Society Nepal, some 45 judges and prosecutors from district and appeal courts in Karnali and Lumbini...
Aug 2, 2024 | Attacks on Justice, News
The undersigned international lawyers’ rights and human rights organisations strongly condemn the Tyumen Regional Bar Council’s decision to disbar Russian human rights lawyer Aleksey Ladin in retaliation for his human rights work. We call on the Russian authorities to...
Aug 1, 2024 | Advocacy, News
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) condemns the Egyptian authorities’ arbitrary arrest and detention, and enforced disappearance, of satirical cartoonist Ashraf Omar and journalist Khaled Mamdouh for the legitimate exercise of their right to freedom of...
