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Nepal: Lawyers call on the Nepal Bar Association to prioritize efforts to counter harmful gender stereotypes and discriminatory behaviour toward women

Practicing lawyers in Nepal identified harmful gender stereotypes and gender discriminatory behaviours towards women as a major barrier preventing women from accessing justice. They requested that the Nepal Bar Association take the lead in efforts to enhance women’s access to justice. ICJ co-hosted a workshop for lawyers with the Nepal Bar Association on the Elimination […]

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EU: Towards ending detention of migrant children

On 23-24 January, the ICJ will hold two events in Brussels on the impact of immigration detention on children and on alternatives to detention for migrant children. The events mark the end of the CADRE project, which the ICJ implemented jointly with national and international partners over the last two years. The project sought to […]

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Malta: joint third party intervention on detention of a migrant child

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), the AIRE Centre and the Global Campus of human rights have submitted a joint third party intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in the case of a A.D. v Malta, concerning the detention of a child seeking asylum in Malta. […]

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