HRC 57: ICJ End-of-Session Statement
UN Human Rights Council makes progress in country monitoring and work on climate change, despite efforts by some States to limit the work of independent mandates. As the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council has come to a close, the ICJ reaffirms its view that...
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Israel violated the United Nations Charter and the international humanitarian law’s principles of distinction and precautions, as the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) intensified strikes on southern Lebanon, the Bekaa and Beirut, the International Commission of Jurists...
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On 11 October 2024, the ICJ filed two submissions to the UN Human Rights Council Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in advance of Lao PDR’s human rights review scheduled for April/May 2025. In a joint submission by the ICJ, the Extra-Territorial...
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On 30 September 2024, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and its partners intervened before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in two cases related to the treatment of asylum seekers at the European Union’s borders with Belarus.
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