ICJ Submission on draft General Comment No. 27 on Children’s access to justice and effective remedy
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has submitted comments to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child regarding the Draft General Comment No. 27 on children’s rights to access to justice and to an effective remedy.
CRPD: Joint third-party intervention on comprehensive assessment of displaced persons with disabilities
On 25 April 2025, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), together with the Advice on Individual Rights in Europe Centre (AIRE Centre) and the European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) submitted a joint third-party intervention before the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the case of H.A.M. v. Denmark. The case concerns the expulsion on criminal grounds of a Somali individual with disabilities from Denmark, after over 30 years of asylum.
ICJ-GI ESCR Submission to the UN Committee on ESCR
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS (ICJ) AND GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (GI-ESCR) SUBMISSION TO THE COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS IN ADVANCE OF THE EXAMINATION OF KENYA’S SIXTH PERIODIC REPORT UNDER ARTICLES 16 AND 17 OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS
ECtHR: ICJ and partners intervene in two cases regarding pushbacks and collective expulsions of asylum seekers at EU-Belarus borders
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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