Jun 21, 2024 | News, Open letters
Ahead of the upcoming General Affairs Council meeting on 25 June, the ICJ and other organizations call on EU Ministers in a joint letter to take the Article 7.1 TEU procedure against Hungary forward and issue recommendations.
Jun 18, 2024 | Advocacy, News, Open letters
On 14 June 2024, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) joined several human rights organizations in expressing concern over the arbitrary use of criminal proceedings and detention to target human rights defenders, activists and protesters solely for exercising...
Jun 17, 2024 | Events, News, Web Stories
Thai justice sector actors, government authorities, medical professionals, and officers of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRCT) have undertaken discussions on how to improve and make effective investigations of torture, other ill-treatment,...
Jun 14, 2024 | Advocacy, Cases, News
The ICJ is concerned by the declaratory and non-binding decision of the National Council, the Swiss Parliament’s lower chamber, on 12 June 2024, inviting the Federal Council, the Swiss Government, effectively to ignore the landmark ruling of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland.
Jun 11, 2024 | Events, News
On 11 June 2024, the ICJ, in collaboration with the East-West Management Institute (EWMI) and the Higher School of Judges (HSJ) under the Supreme Judicial Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan, launched an international human rights law course for law students seeking to become judges.