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Global accountability demands greater support for investigations, insist the Netherlands and ICJ
Justice for serious human rights violations requires more effective evidence collection and...
Read moreICJ and Cordaid report highlights the need for religious and customary laws to empower rather than discriminate against women and girls
Today the ICJ in collaboration with Cordaid issued a report on a...
Read moreMartin Ennals Award Finalists 2021 shine a light on abuses in authoritarian states
Soltan Achilova, Loujain AlHathloul and Yu Wensheng, three outstanding human rights defenders...
Read moreZimbabwe: journalist and lawyers detained for exercising their rights to free expression must be released
The ICJ today condemned the arbitrary arrests in recent days of prominent...
Read moreGreece: online training on fair and effective asylum procedures
Today, the ICJ in collaboration with Greek Council of Refugees (GCR) is...
Read moreVenezuela: attacks against freedom of expression must cease immediately
The recent campaigns of stigmatization, harassment, and repression against the media in...
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Jurists denounce stalling of democratic process in Haiti
The ICJ strongly denounces the assassination of a number of persons, including...
Read moreICJ welcomes UN appointment of Special Rapporteur on Sexual Slavery
The ICJ welcomes the appointment of a UN Special Rapporteur on sexual...
Read moreICJ calls for equal participation of women in development and denounces fraudulent enrichment of top officials
The ICJ said today, before the 45th Session of the UN Sub-Commission...
Read moreJurists say Israeli raids on South Lebanon violate international law
The ICJ said today that the on-going Israeli raids on the South...
Read moreNigerian Government should respect people’s choice
Today, the lCJ expressed its concern over the recent interference in the...
Read moreNGOs register of complaints and communications to the African Commission opened at the ICJ
Conclusions and recommendations of the 4th NGO Workshop, in Banjul March 26-28....
Read moreThe collapse of Constitutional order in Guatemala
On the 25 May 1993, the President of Guatemala, Jorge Serrano Elias...
Read moreJurists campaign for the establishment of a permanent International Penal Court
Today, the ICJ launched a campaign for the establishment of a permanent...
Read moreJurists call for an International Penal Court
During the discussion on the human rights situation in the former Yugoslavia,...
Read moreJurists call for a Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories
The ICJ intervened at the 49th session of the United Nations Commission...
Read moreJurists say Israeli deportations threaten international peace and security
The ICJ intervened today with the President of the UN Security Council...
Read moreChile judiciary shut its eyes to junta’s brutality, report says
Chile’s judiciary was a pliant partner of the military junta and shut...
Read moreJurists monitor elections in Madagascar
The ICJ, given the responsibility by the European Economic Community of supervising...
Read moreICJ and Fordham University commemorate El Salvador murders
Exactly three years ago, on 16 November 1989, six Jesuit priests were...
Read moreInternational experts reject amnesty for human rights abuses
Perpetrators of grave human rights violations must be pursued and punished under...
Read moreJurists seek inquiry into death of Malawi opposition leader
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers is seeking...
Read moreMarcos verdict sets precedent for rights victims, the ICJ says
Victims of human rights abuses have broken new legal ground by winning...
Read moreInterim Thai Government interferes with judicial independence
Forty-eight hours before the recent general elections in Thailand, the interim government...
Read moreLaw is a dangerous profession in Colombia
Judges and lawyers in Colombia work in a dangerous profession, says a...
Read moreReport finds jurists at risk around the world
At least 447 jurists from 46 countries were targets of persecution in...
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