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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...

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...

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...

EU: New Report on Strategic Litigation of Judicial Independence

The new report, Justice Under Pressure: Strategic Litigation of Judicial Independence in Europe, published by the ICJ and Human Rights in Practice, provides a comprehensive overview of standards and practices on strategic litigation to defend...

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...

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...

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...

Belarus: ICJ and IBAHRI Denounce Legal Harassment on Political Grounds

Joint Oral Statement The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) deplore the widespread and systematic human rights violations in Belarus. We condemn the escalating pattern of retaliation...

The Human Rights Situation in the Russian Federation (UN side event)

For decades within its own borders, Russian authorities have undermined and attacked independent civil society, persecuted human rights defenders, activists, lawyers, and opposition and dissenting voices, banned independent media, silenced journalists, and have effectively outlawed...

Russian Federation: Attacks on Independent Lawyers and Erosion of Justice should stop (UN Human Rights Council Statement)

Joint Oral Statement The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) condemn the widespread and escalating attacks on independent lawyers, including legal harassment, disciplinary actions, disbarments, and arbitrary...

EU: NGO letter to EU Ministers on continued rule of law backsliding in Poland and Hungary

The International Commissions of Jurists joined by Amnesty International, FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights), Human Rights Watch, Open Society Foundations, RECLAIM and Transparency International EU have sent an open letter to EU Ministers on...

ICJ urges the authorities of Belarus to stop attacks on lawyers for legitimately carrying out their work

Oral Statement of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) at the interactive dialogue on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report on the situation of human rights in Belarus in the run-up...

Ukraine: Effectiveness and independence of the judiciary must be bolstered

The ICJ today called on the Government of Ukraine to strengthen its judiciary and its independences before the UN Human Rights Council during the dialogue with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for his...

EU: Joint NGO letter to EU ministers ahead of their hearing of Hungary on upholding respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of law

Webinar: Care for migrant children in the EU

Ukraine judiciary should be empowered to effectively administer justice (UN Statement)

Türkiye: ICJ intervenes in European Court case on transfer of judges

Moldova justice reforms must be effectively implemented (UN Statement)

Belarus endemic impunity for gross human rights violations must end (UN Statement)

Turkey: End abuse of criminal proceedings against Selahattin Demirtaş

Turkey: System of transfer of judges undermines judicial independence and must be reformed

Turkey: Women’s access to justice to protect their human rights and the environment is compromised