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Thailand: CEDAW Concluding Observations highlight urgent concerns on discrimination faced by women and girls in the southern border provinces
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today launched an advocacy leaflet and infographic, together with video interviews featuring civil society organisations (CSOs) from Thailand’s Southern Border Provinces (SBPs). Continue Reading Thailand: CEDAW Concluding Observations highlight...
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Nepal: A Brief Review of Nepal’s Transitional Justice (TJ) Law
In a new briefing paper published today, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) highlights key shortcomings in Nepal’s transitional justice law, the ‘Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances, Truth and Reconciliation Act (TRC Act)’. Continue...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Cambodia: Ministries should withdraw draft cybersecurity law which would threaten human rights and expose people to increased cyber threats
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Access Now sent a joint letter and an accompanying legal analysis to Cambodia’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and Ministry of Justice, calling for the withdrawal or substantial amendment...
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Indonesia: Protect women against online gender-based violence more effectively
The Indonesian authorities should ensure that women are effectively protected against online gender-based violence (OGBV) by implementing Law No. 12 of 2022 on Sexual Violence Crimes (Law 12/2022) and by addressing its shortcomings in line...
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Optics and Opacity: Breaking Down Meta’s Refusal to Suspend Hun Sen
An opinion piece by Daron Tan, ICJ Associate International Legal Adviser, Asia and the Pacific Programme, published on Tech Policy Press on 20 September 2023. On January 9, 2023, former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun...
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Cambodia: Human Rights Council should adopt meaningful resolution to address spiralling rights crisis
On 8 September, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and 7 other organizations sent an open letter to the UN Human Rights Council to draw attention to the worsening human rights crisis in Cambodia, and...
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Afghanistan: local and international organizations call on the UN Human Rights Council to establish an independent investigative mechanism
In an open letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and 72 other organizations urge the Council to, amongst other things, renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur...
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Philippines: ICJ makes submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
On 6 September 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) made a submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms...
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Sri Lanka: Protecting transgender persons: Going beyond rule by circular
An opinion piece by Mathuri Thamilmaran, National Legal Advisor – Sri Lanka at the International Commission of Jurists Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) individuals in Sri Lanka have too often been subjected to...
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Vietnam: Halt the arbitrary execution of death row prisoner Nguyen Van Chuong
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), and 12 other organizations, submitted an open letter to the State President urging the Vietnamese authorities to halt the execution of Nguyễn Văn Chưởng immediately, and to initiate a...
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Lao PDR: ICJ and its partners make a submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
On 7 August 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the Extra-Territorial Obligation Watch Coalition (ETO Watch Coalition) and Land Watch Thai (LWT) filed a joint submission for the preparation by the UN Committee on...
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Sri Lanka: Adolescent students and discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity/expression
An opinion piece by Mathuri Thamilmaran, National Legal Advisor – Sri Lanka at the International Commission of Jurists A state minister’s recent comment has once again brought to the forefront the need to include comprehensive...
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Malaysia: ICJ makes submission to the Universal Periodic Review
On 18 July 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 Malaysia’s human...
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UN Human Rights Council: A call to address the situation of independent judges, prosecutors and lawyers in Venezuela and Myanmar
On the occasion of the interactive dialogues with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of Venezuela and Myanmar, the ICJ urges the High Commissioner and UN Member States to monitor and...
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Myanmar: ICJ publishes an update to its October 2022 report on the violations of the right to freedom of religion or belief since coup d’état in Myanmar
An update to the October 2022 report: “Violations of the right to freedom of religion or belief since the coup d’état in Myanmar”. This publication provides an overview of the violations of the right to...
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ICJ condemns serious human rights violations in Sri Lanka and Tunisia (UN Statement)
The ICJ addressed the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today to deplore the serious human rights violations, and attacks on the rule of law and civic space in Sri Lanka and Tunisia, during a...
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