The ICJ and the Myanmar Investment Commission co-hosted a workshop on “Bilateral Investment Treaties and the Role of the MIC” in Yangon on 28 July 2014.
Today the Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights of Frontex published its first annual report.
The report intends to explain the functioning of the Consultative Forum, retrace Consultative Forum’s activities in 2013 and give a short outlook for 2014. It contains the main recommendations that the Consultative Forum made to Frontex and its Management Board in 2013 and the impact of those.
The Consultative Forum was instituted pursuant to article 26a of Frontex Regulation as revised in October 2011.
It is currently composed by:
The Consultative Forum has the competence to assist the Executive Director and the Management Board in fundamental rights matters.
Frontex_Consultative_Forum_AR2014 (Report in pdf)
The ICJ condemned today the sentence imposed on Thulani Rudolph Maseko and Bheki Makhubu following their conviction on two counts of contempt of court
The new interim Constitution unveiled on Tuesday by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) includes several provisions that place the NCPO and its agents above the rule of law, the ICJ said today.
Today’s judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, finding Poland responsible for violating the human rights of two victims of CIA renditions and secret detentions, involving enforced disappearance and torture, is a victory for the rule of law in Europe, the ICJ said today.
The ICJ today expressed concern at recent attempts by Russian investigative authorities to impede the work of lawyer Georgy Antonov.
EU: ICJ publishes strategic litigation guide on children and immigration detention
Myanmar: Five years after the coup “justice system” remains an instrument of repression
Pakistan: Arbitrary arrest and sentencing of human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha
Türkiye: Conviction of Kurdish lawyers is an affront to justice and undermines the independence of the legal profession