The ICJ presented today its written submissions to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) ahead of its consideration of the periodic review by Turkey on compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
The ICJ has intervened in two cases against Turkey before the European Court of Human Rights in which civil society claimed that obstacles put to their access to court were in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.In the two cases Cangi and Others v. Turkey (facts of the case here and here), the applicants argued that the limitations to their access to courts to challenge administrative acts detrimental to the environment were in breach of article 6.1 of the European Convention on Human Rights, notably the right to access to justice.
On 31 January 2022, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) made a submission to the Human Rights Committee on Cambodia’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
The ICJ has made a submission to the UN Human Rights Committee in advance of its forthcoming examination of Israel’s fifth periodic report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
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