Southeast Asian Region: Judicial Dialogue Considers How to Make Courts More Effective in Environmental Cases
On 26–27 September 2024, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in collaboration with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) and the Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ), convened a Regional Judicial Dialogue in Bangkok, Thailand. The two-day event brought...
2023 UN Human Rights Prize awarded to civil society and Indigenous Peoples Global Coalition for the right to a healthy environment!
Today, the United Nations announced that the Global Coalition of Civil Society, Indigenous Peoples, Social Movements, and Local Communities for the Universal Recognition of the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment will be one of the recipients of the prestigious award bestowed every five years to celebrate the outstanding contribution to select individuals and human rights organizations.
Human Rights Council 53rd session – ICJ’s end of session statement
As the United Nations Human Rights Council concludes its 53rd session in Geneva, the ICJ welcomes the Council’s continued commitment to addressing some of the critical challenges of the day, including violence against women and girls, the rights of migrants, the independence of the judiciary, and the impact of new technologies and climate change on human rights. At the same time, some States at the Council have persisted in calling into question and undermining hard-fought gains in such areas as the protection of the rights of LGBTI persons, or sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Vietnam: Stop the arbitrary arrest and detention of environmental human rights defenders
Today, the ICJ and nine other human rights and environmental organizations express grave concern over the recent arbitrary arrest, detention, and silencing of several environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) speaking out against harmful business operations supported by the government.
The arrest of environmentalist Hoang Thi Minh Hong, her husband and two staff members on 31 May 2023 on trumped-up charges of tax evasion is just another case in the increased targeting of EHRDs in Vietnam.