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Lesotho: ICJ briefing paper reveals the struggles of LGBTIQ+ persons navigating the justice system, and getting access to justice and effective remedies

A new briefing paper published by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) outlines some of the obstacles LGBTIQ+ people face in their access to justice and effective remedies and makes recommendations to the Lesotho authorities...

EU: ICJ calls for a ban on child immigration detention by EU Member States under the EU Pact

The ICJ’s new briefing paper, Never in the best interests of the child: Risks of child detention in the screening and border procedures under the 2024 EU Migration Pact, critically examines the detention of child...

Montenegro: ICJ report call for comprehensive judicial reforms

EU: The Model Bench Book on rights of persons with disabilities published today

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Validity have published the Model Disability Bench Book on the rights of persons with disabilities who are defendants in criminal proceedings. The Bench Book provides guidance to justice...

ICJ Annual Report 2023

This Annual Report represents our comprehensive approach to enhancing global mechanisms for justice and accountability. Through a combination of advocacy at high-level international forums, contributions to treaty negotiations, and the fostering of strategic partnerships, the...

‘Build Us More Schools’: The Quest for Quality Free Education in Mabatini and Ngei Wards of Mathare, Nairobi

Libya: Draft Reconciliation Law is an opportunity for accountability and justice

In a new report, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) calls on the Libyan authorities to remedy remaining shortcomings and adopt Libya’s Presidential Council’s Draft Reconciliation Law with a view to ensuring full compliance with international human...

ICJ makes a submission on killings of LGBTIQ+ persons in response to a call by the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

On 6 June, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) made a submission on the killing of LGBTIQ+ persons, in response to a call for inputs  by the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary...

YouTube: International Commission of Jurists

ICJ aims to ensure the progressive development and effective implementation of international human rights and international humanitarian law; secure the realization of civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights; safeguard the separation of powers; and...

YouTube: CIJ América Latina

Judicial Independence Podcast

The Judicial Independence Podcast is part of the ⁠Rule of law for lawyers project (ROLL)⁠ led by the International Commission of Jurists, in partnership with Free Courts, aditus, Forum for Human Rights and Human Rights...

Libya: ICJ makes a submission on Libya’s compliance with the Guidelines on Freedom of Association and Assembly in Africa

On 31 March 2024, in response to a Call for Inputs on the Study to Assess the Level of Compliance of National Legislations with the Guidelines on Freedom of Association and Assembly in Africa, the...

Thailand: Abusive lawsuit targeting human rights defender must be dismissed

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) intervene in the criminal defamation proceeding against Thai human rights defender Chutima Sidasathian. Today, the ICJ and LRWC jointly submitted a legal brief...

Vietnam: ICJ makes a submission to the UN Human Rights Committee

On 14 December 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) filed a submission for the preparation by the UN Human Rights Committee of a List of Issues (LOI) for the examination of Viet Nam’s fourth periodic...

Indonesia: Criminalization of disinformation threatens freedom of expression

An opinion piece by Yogi Bratajaya, ICJ Legal Consultant and Daron Tan, ICJ Associate International Legal Adviser, Asia and the Pacific Programme, published on The Jakarta Post on 27 November 2023.  Over the past two...

EU: Protecting Judicial Independence: Lawyers’ strategic litigation workshop

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in collaboration with aditus, Human Rights in Practice, Forum for Human Rights, Free Courts organized a workshop for lawyers on judicial independence and strategic litigation in Malta on 23...

Gaza/Palestine: States have a Duty to Prevent Genocide

Photo by Amir Shiri on Unsplash LEGAL BRIEFER: States’ Duty to Prevent Genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention  This legal briefer focuses on States’ duty to prevent genocide under international law. However, the International Commission...

EU: NGOs call on the EU Council to defend EU values in Hungary and Poland in the Article 7 procedure

Today, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and partners have called on the EU General Affairs Council to make full use of procedure under Article 7.1 in addressing concerns about Hungary and Poland. They advocate...

Marching ahead: It’s time to decriminalize

An opinion piece by Mathuri Thamilmaran, National Legal Advisor – Sri Lanka at the International Commission of Jurists Recently, the Mauritius Supreme Court ruled that a 185-year-old law criminalizing consensual same-sex sexual conduct was unconstitutional....

Thailand: ICJ and Amnesty International ask the court to apply international standards in the first-ever class action case seeking redress for harm caused by Thai companies abroad

Yesterday, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Amnesty International (AI) jointly submitted an amicus curiae legal brief to the Bangkok South Civil Court in a class-action lawsuit filed by two residents of Cambodian villages,...

ICJ makes submission on the decriminalization of homelessness and extreme poverty to UN Special Rapporteurs

On 5 October, in response to a call for input from the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing and the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)...

Libya: New Q&A on current attacks on the right to freedom of association

A new question-and-answer briefing by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) examines recent developments that have detrimentally affected the right to freedom of association in Libya against the backdrop of an increasing crackdown on Civil Society...

Cambodia: ICJ makes two submissions to the Universal Periodic Review

On 11 October 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) made two submissions to the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in advance of its review of Cambodia’s human...

Vietnam: ICJ makes submission to the Universal Periodic Review

On 11 October 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) made a submission to the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in advance of its review of Vietnam’s human...