Aug 2, 2014 | Multimedia items, News, Video clips
Women judges, lawyers and human rights defenders from across Africa participated in ICJ Colloquia on “Women Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders: Challenges and Opportunities” on 30 and 31 July in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.
The colloquia were hosted in collaboration and partnership with the Gender Committee of the SADC Lawyers Association, the Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights.
It enabled over 40 women lawyers, human rights defenders and judges to come together to identify the challenges faced by women lawyers and human rights defenders and elaborate action steps.
Discussions also addressed the role of the judiciary in advancing gender equality, women’s access to justice and protection of women human rights defenders.
The Colloquia are part of an ICJ multi-year initiative on women judges, lawyers and human rights defenders as agents of change.
Interviews:
Justice Martha Koome (Kenya)
Justice Lillian Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza (Uganda)
Doo Aphane (Swaziland)
Jane Serwanga (Kenya)
Jul 30, 2014 | News
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.
Jul 28, 2014 | News
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:
- two European Union Agencies:
- European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
- European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
- four UN Agencies and Intergovernmental Organisations:
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Office for
- Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE / ODIHR)
- Council of Europe (CoE)
- nine Civil Society Organisations:
- Amnesty International European Institutions Office (AI EIO)
- Caritas Europa (CE)
- Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME)
- European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
- International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
- International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC)
- Jesuit Refugee Service Europe (JRS)
- Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants
- (PICUM)
- Red Cross EU Office.
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)
Jul 25, 2014 | News
The ICJ condemned today the sentence imposed on Thulani Rudolph Maseko and Bheki Makhubu following their conviction on two counts of contempt of court
Jul 24, 2014 | News
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.
Jul 24, 2014 | News
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.
