
Late as usual: Delayed delivery of textbooks infringes the right to education of Nepali students
This op-ed was written by the ICJ’s Karuna Parajuli and Timothy Fish Hodgson. It was published on 10 June 2022 by the Kathmandu Post.
This op-ed was written by the ICJ’s Karuna Parajuli and Timothy Fish Hodgson. It was published on 10 June 2022 by the Kathmandu Post.
A new question and answer briefing by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) examines leaked amendments to Decree 88-2011 on the organisation of associations and the ways in which the amendments would damage to the right to freedom of association, among other human rights, the rule of law, the separation of powers, the independence of the judiciary, rule of law and democracy in the country.
The amendments, leaked to civil society from a government source earlier this year, would limit the scope of the work that civil society organizations can lawfully undertake, curtail their access to financial support and, in so doing, weaken one of the last lines of defence against his one-man-rule.
The ICJ’s Q&A briefing answers the following questions:
The prolonged and unlawful detention of Selahattin Demirtaş constitutes a serious breach of his human rights and represents a deepening of the rule of law crisis in Turkey. The Turkish authorities should release him from detention, drop the abusive criminal proceedings against him and refrain from weaponising the law to stifle the exercise of free expression in public debate.
On the 30th of April the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in collaboration of the High Court Bar Association, Nepalgunj, Lumbini Province held a workshop on the potential for strategic litigation in Nepal as a tool to ensure the realization of the right to education. The workshop focused on international human rights law and standards relating to the right to education, such as the Abidjan Principles on the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate private involvement in education (the Abidjan Principles), and those emerging from the jurisprudence of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) under International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
Today, the ICJ addressed the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (“INB”) for the Pandemic Treaty during its public consultations on the substantive elements of this instrument. While welcoming the INB’s decision to hold such public hearings, we recommend that it dramatically widen and extend its efforts to ensure public participation.