Since its independence in 1945, the development of the Indonesian legal system has been heavily influenced by the philosophies and aspirations of the nation’s first two presidents, President Soekarno and President Soeharto.
The ICJ stated that the Singapore leadership’s ongoing use of defamation proceedings to silence opponents seriously undermined the rule of law.
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers reports that, since 1983, the Sri Lankan security forces have been responsible for thousands of killings.
In this study, Atty. Mamta Kachwaha analyses and evaluates the quality and development of the legal system in India during the last twenty-five years, with a particular emphasis on the judiciary.
This study is a joint publication of the Interdisciplinary Research Program on Root Causes of Human Rights Violations (PIOOM), and the Centre for the Independence of Judges and Laywers (CIJL).
The independence and impartiality of judges and the independence of lawyers form central aspects of this study. The scope also includes important social issues of social justice, such as backlogs and court delay; access to justice and the courts; human rights and the role of the judiciary in giving redress to victims.
India-judiciary independence CIJL-report-1998-eng (full text in English, PDF)
This is the report of a mission sent by ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers to Sri Lanka. The Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers is dedicated to promoting and protecting the independence of judges and lawyers throughout the world.
Joint Letter: Urgent diplomatic action to halt further executions in eastern Libya
Czech Republic: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child finds that immigration detention of children violated the prohibition of arbitrary detention and ill-treatment
UN Human Rights Council once again navigates troubled waters to protect human rights in crisis situations, despite global setbacks.
Joint statement: States Must Act Now to Protect the International Criminal Court from Unlawful US Sanctions