The Chilean government’s misuse of emergency powers in response to the COVID-19 crisis highlights the need to use the country’s ongoing constitutional drafting process to incorporate protections for economic, social and cultural rights and limit emergency powers, said the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in a report published today. (more…)
On 31 August 2021, during a side event in the context of the Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), the International Commission of Jurists, Saferworld and the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) launched the report Domestic accountability for arms transfers: Law, policy and practice. (more…)
Tunisia’s transitional justice process has failed to provide accountability for thousands of survivors of sexual and gender-based crimes, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said in a new report published today. (more…)
Venezuela’s judiciary has become a tool for political control of the country by the Executive branch rather than a defender of the rule of law, said the ICJ in a report launched today. (more…)
Peru has persistently failed to deliver accountability for enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings, found the ICJ in a report released today. (more…)
Southern African States have individually and collectively failed to provide sufficient and equitable COVID-19 vaccine access to meet their human rights obligations, the ICJ said today in a new briefing paper entitled The Unvaccinated: Equality not Charity in Southern Africa. (more…)
