ICJ and 9 other human rights organizations wrote an open-letter to Prime Minister of Thailand Prayut Chan-o-cha, requesting his government to publish information on the draft amendments to the 2015 Communicable Diseases Act recently approved
by the Cabinet and ensure the amendments align with international human rights law.
On 11 November 2021, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP) held a webinar titled “Transitional Justice Needs in Libya” to commemorate the first anniversary of the assassination of Libyan human rights advocate, Hanan al-Barassi, in Benghazi in the east of the country.
Four separate bills on anti-discrimination have been filed since June 2020 at the National Assembly of South Korea. However, these bills remain pending for discussion at the Legislation and Judiciary Committee. ICJ and other undersigned human rights organizations, call on the National Assembly to immediately move forward with discussions on these bills and pass a comprehensive, meaningful and enforceable Anti-Discrimination Act without further delay.
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) stands in solidarity with Al-Haq and five other Palestinian civil society organizations formally designated as “terrorist organizations” on 19 October 2021 by Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz.
Los Estados miembros de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) que bloquean o impiden la adopción de una exención (“waiver”) de los derechos de propiedad intelectual para las vacunas COVID-19 y otros tratamientos están incumpliendo sus obligaciones legales de realizar los derechos a la salud, la igualdad, la vida y la ciencia, dijo hoy la CIJ en una opinión legal experta publicada (en inglés) con el respaldo de más de 85 juristas de todo el mundo.
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