The ICJ, together with KAGED and the Human Rights Joint Platform has held a series of four trainings for lawyers and civil society in Türkiye to empower them in using human rights law to protect the environment.
Türkiye’s authorities must immediately free human rights defender and philanthropist Osman Kavala, after a damning judgment of the European Court of Human Rights held the State did not act in good faith by keeping him behind bars despite a previous ruling of the Court requiring his release.
The ICJ condemns the arrest and the criminal charging of Dmitry Talantov, the President of the Bar Association of Udmurtia region, on 28 June 2022, for exercising his right to freedom of expression. The ICJ calls for his immediate release and the dropping of all charges.
The months following the Russian Federation’s military invasion in Ukraine have been marked, in Russia itself, by a wave of protests against the invasion and systematic official suppression of expressions of opposition to the invasion. The government has hastily adopted new restrictive laws limiting expression of views on the conflict, followed by immediate enforcement through thousands of mostly arbitrary arrests and criminal charges related to the protests. In many cases, those arrested have not had access to prompt and confidential legal advice, and their right to an effective defence in court has been impeded. While obstruction of the work of lawyers in defence of human rights is a long-standing problem in Russia, the problem has become particularly acute in relation to the recent arrests of protesters.
On Wednesday 15th June 2022, from 11:00 to 12:15 CET, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) will hold a webinar on the need for the EU to safeguard migrant children’s human rights, and the scope for alternatives to detention foreseen in the EU Pact on Asylum and Migration.
The ICJ condemned the declaration of yet another state of emergency on Tuesday 24 May by the government of Hungary, and called on the government to desist from using it as a basis to undertake any measure that would further erode the already dismal state of rule of law in the country.
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