ICJ Annual Report 2025

ICJ Annual Report 2025 2025 was a defining year for the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) as it strengthened its role in defending the rule of law, judicial independence and human rights amid growing democratic...

EU: Gaps and good practices in safeguarding children’s rights in criminal proceedings

Children who come into contact with the criminal justice system as suspects or accused persons continue to face serious gaps in the protection of their rights, despite international and EU law and standards. A new...

Ghana: ICJ Calls on Ghanaian President to reject the Anti-LGBTIQ+ Bill

Ghana’s Parliament has recently adopted legislation that seeks to criminalize all real or imputed lesbian gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) persons, as well as those purportedly perceived to promote the human rights of...

Submission to the CEDAW Committee’s Call for Comments on the Draft General Recommendation on Gender Stereotypes

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) submitted and supported two additional submissions to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on draft General Recommendation No. 41 on dismantling gender stereotypes and the...

EU: Strategies and good practices for ensuring the child’s right to be heard and to participate in legal proceedings

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and its partners have published a Compendium, Ensuring the child’s right to be heard and to participate in legal proceedings: Strategies and good practices. The Compendium aims to support...

El uso de tribunales antiterroristas para suprimir la disidencia en Venezuela

Este documento informativo de la Comisión Internacional de Juristas (CIJ) analiza la instrumentalización del sistema penal venezolano para perseguir la disidencia. A través de tribunales especiales en “terrorismo” y el uso discrecional de legislación ambigua,...

The Use of Anti-Terrorism Courts to Suppress Dissent in Venezuela

This briefing paper by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) analyzes the instrumentalization of the Venezuelan penal system to persecute dissent. Through special “terrorism” courts and the discretionary use of ambiguous legislation, the State has subjected thousands...

Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression And Sex Characteristics And Justice

Background In 2011, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) published a comparative law casebook on national court decisions that addressed questions concerning sexual orientation, gender identity (SOGI) and justice.1 This initial SOGI casebook consisted of...

Nepal: Integrating Economic, Social and Cultural Rights into Nepal’s Transitional Justice: Gaps, Challenges and the Way Forward

A holistic TJ process should ensure that reparative social and economic justice and criminal prosecutions work together to deliver comprehensive justice for victims. Continue Reading Nepal: Integrating Economic, Social and Cultural Rights into Nepal’s Transitional...

Safeguarding Civil Society Space at the United Nations

This report examines the place and role of civil society within the United Nations (UN) human rights system and the conditions that, over time, have enabled it to participate. It focuses on how these conditions...

ICJ Statement presented at International Women’s Day Event in Lesotho

The Lesotho Government must address delayed Lesotho Highlands Development Authority compensation, tackle economic gender-based violence and femicide, while closing gaps in sexual and reproductive health rights. On International Women’s Day, the International Commission of Jurists...

Uganda: Election-related violations must be effectively investigated and human rights in the civic space must be protected.

12 February 2026 The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) condemns the conduct of Uganda’s recent general elections, which was marked by widespread repression and intimidation of opposition members and critics as well as an internet...

Submission to the Independent Expert on Protection Against Violence and Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity by the People’s Matrix, the Seinoli Legal Centre and the International Commission of Jurists

This Joint Submission is responding to the “Call for input to thematic report to HRC62: Violence and discrimination experienced by lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women”, in preparation for the thematic report on violence and...

EU: ICJ publishes strategic litigation guide on children and immigration detention

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has published the Guide on strategic litigation for lawyers and civil society organizations: Strategies to end immigration detention of children through international remedies aimed at strengthening protection of children...

Submission from the International Commission of Jurists to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on Reservations relating to access to abortion and the inconsistency of national laws in relation to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol)

Excarcelados pero no Libres: El abuso de las detenciones arbitrarias y medidas cautelares para perseguir la disidencia en Venezuela

ICJ Strategic Plan 2026-2030

Tajikistan: barriers faced by survivors of gender-based violence

Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a serious and persistent human rights concern in Tajikistan, a report published today by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) finds. While laws and policies have been adopted, many survivors continue...

Statement on Situation of Persons with Disabilities in Africa by the International Commission of Jurists and African Disability Forum to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

THE NAIROBI DECLARATION ON ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

The Nairobi Declaration was developed by the ICJ in partnership with African OPDs at a conference held in Nairobi in May 2025. It was launched during the proceedings of the 85th Ordinary Session of the...

Released but not free: the abuse of arbitrary detentions and pre-trial measures to prosecute dissent in Venezuela

Over the past ten years, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has extensively evaluated the continuous deepening deterioration of the rule of law, human rights, and democracy in Venezuela. Generally, the patterns of widespread and...

From Exclusion to Equality: Advancing Access to Justice for Persons with Disabilities in Lesotho – Executive Summary

From Exclusion to Equality: Advancing Access to Justice for Persons with Disabilities in Lesotho

ICJ Annual report 2024

The International Commission of Jurists delivered results that promoted and protected the global architecture of justice and accountability. Operating across 36 countries amid intensifying conflicts and shrinking civic space, we worked with over 4221 justice...