The Chilean government’s misuse of emergency powers in response to the COVID-19 crisis highlights the need to use the country’s ongoing constitutional drafting process to incorporate protections for economic, social and cultural rights and limit emergency powers, said the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in a report published today.
The Lebanese authorities must end attempts to obstruct, intimidate and threaten Judge Tareq Bitar, including the baseless and self-serving lawsuits aimed at removing him from the investigation into the Beirut blast, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said today.
Civil society organizations condemn and express their profound disappointment at the United Nations Human Rights Council’s decision to discontinue the mandate of the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen.
Today, ICJ and nine others organizations called on the Government of Singapore to withdraw the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Bill (‘FICA’). FICA’s provisions contravene international legal and human rights principles – including the rights to freedom of expression, association, participation in public affairs, and privacy – and will further curtail civic space, both online and offline.
The ICJ today applauded the adoption of a landmark resolution by the UN Human Rights Council recognizing the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and a second resolution and establishing a Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change.
More than fifty years on: enforced disappearance, the families who named it, and the reframing of international protection
Türkiye: Osman Kavala must be immediately released following European Court order to quash his conviction
Sudan: ICJ joins call to extend UN Fact-Finding Mission and strengthen accountability
ICJ hosts Johannesburg roundtable on the draft Crimes Against Humanity Treaty with the Malala Fund and other civil society actors