Sudanese refugee activist Abdul Aziz Muhamat is the 2019 Martin Ennals Award Laureate. He was among three finalists, selected last October by a jury of ten of the world’s leading human rights organizations, including the ICJ, together with Marino Cordoba Berrio (Colombia) and Eren Keskin (Turkey). (more…)
The three finalists who will compete for this prestigious award given to human rights defenders having shown deep commitment and facing great personal risk are: Eren Keskin (Turkey), Marino Córdoba Berrio (Colombia) and Abdul Aziz Muhamat (Papua New Guinea/Australia). The ICJ is member of the MEA Jury. (more…)
Against a backdrop of inter-communal violence and the worsening of law and order in the region, the police have reportedly been carrying out abuses, including against detainees, while enjoying impunity. (more…)
Page 185 I would like to draw the attention of your Excellency’s Government to reports regarding accounts of police violence against children. According to the information I have received, three school children who were shot dead by police on 31 October in Enga province while another twenty to thirty five persons, some as young as […]
The Seminar was organised by the ICJ in collaboration with the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement. (more…)
The ICJ in its bulletin no.25 focuses on emerging countries and the challenges facing. They expose the persistent violation of the most elementary principles of justice and respect for human rights, for example in Haiti committed by Dr. Duvalier’s regime. (more…)
