International Commission of Jurists
Turkey: ICJ intervenes in support of access to justice for civil society in environmental cases

Turkey: ICJ intervenes in support of access to justice for civil society in environmental cases

Mar 28, 2022

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.

Cambodia: ICJ submission to the Human Rights Committee

Cambodia: ICJ submission to the Human Rights Committee

Feb 2, 2022

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).

Czechia: ICJ and Forum for Human Rights submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Czechia: ICJ and Forum for Human Rights submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Jan 14, 2022

Czechia should take steps to reform the existing child justice system in a way that provides children with mandatory legal representation from their very first contact with the law, with a wide range of non-judicial solutions, said ICJ and Forum for Human Rights (Forum) in their submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). It should abandon the practice of separating children from their families and placing them in alternative care due to their “behaviour difficulties” or “behaviour problems” and ensure that a civil court order can never lead to placement of a child in a closed regime facility.

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