The question of impunity for gross violations of human rights is a serious concern for society. To tackle this issue, the Commission Nationale Consultative des Droits de I’Homme (France) and the International Commission of Jurists are co-sponsoring an “International Meeting Concerning Impunity” from 2 to 5 November under the auspices of the United Nations.
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers is seeking an investigation into the death of Orton Chirwa, a pro-democracy activist and Malawi’s first Minister of Justice, who had been imprisoned since 1981.
Victims of human rights abuses have broken new legal ground by winning a civil suit against the former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the ICJ said today.
Forty-eight hours before the recent general elections in Thailand, the interim government took unilateral legislative steps which undermine the independence of the judiciary, the ICJ said today.
Judges and lawyers in Colombia work in a dangerous profession, says a report issued today by the ICJ, which documents 515 cases of violence against Colombian lawyers and judges between 1979 and 1991. More than half of the victims, 278 jurists, were murdered.<
At least 447 jurists from 46 countries were targets of persecution in the last year as they carried out their work, the ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers reported today.
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
Joint Statements: Negotiations on the Convention on Crimes against Humanity
Iran: immediately stop mass killings of protestors and other atrocities and end impunity