Tunisia’s President, Kais Saied, has instigated and set in motion a process aimed at replacing the country’s existing consensus-based 2014 constitution in a way that is devoid of any legal basis, democratic legitimacy, inclusivity, accountability and transparency.
The ICJ today denounced the continuing endemic impunity in Belarus for gross violations of human rights before the UN Human Rights Council during the interactive dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus.
The ICJ condemns the arrest and the criminal charging of Dmitry Talantov, the President of the Bar Association of Udmurtia region, on 28 June 2022, for exercising his right to freedom of expression. The ICJ calls for his immediate release and the dropping of all charges.
The ICJ today delivered a statement before the UN Human Rights Council during the Panel discussion on the adverse impact of climate change on the full and effective enjoyment of human rights by people in vulnerable situations.
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and 6 other human rights organizations urgently call on the Singaporean authorities to drop their criminal investigations of human rights defenders Kirsten Han and Rocky Howe and cease harassing them through legal processes for their work.
Tunisia: Quash sham conviction and sentence of judges’ association President, Anas Hmedi
The UN Human Rights Council makes significant but limited progress in addressing human rights around the world, as atrocities multiply in the Middle East and elsewhere
ICJ hosts an African Regional Convening in Kenya on Transformative Equality Jurisprudence
Russian Federation: Arbitrarily detained human rights lawyer Maria Bontsler must be released