Mar 20, 2017
Today, the European Committee of Social Rights registered a collective complaint prepared by the ICJ in cooperation with Forum for Human Rights, against the Czech Republic.
The complaint argues that the Czech Republic fails to ensure equal legal protection and participation of children below the age of criminal responsibility in the pre-trial stage of juvenile justice procedures.
The ICJ and FORUM submit that serious systemic flaws in the Czech juvenile justice system deprive a specific group of particularly vulnerable individuals – children below the age of criminal responsibility – of an adequate level of social protection and leave them at risk of inappropriate or unfair procedures leading to arbitrary punitive measures, in violation of Article 17 of the European Social Charter, both alone and read in conjunction with the principle of equality in the preamble to the Charter.
This situation concerns more than one thousand children every year and as a matter of urgency, it requires a structured response.
Feb 16, 2017 | Agendas, Events, News, Training modules
Today, the ICJ and Aditus are holding a training for lawyers on the rights of migrant children and on accessing international human rights mechanisms in Valetta.
The training aims to support the strategic use of national and international mechanisms to foster migrant children’s access to justice.
The training will take place over the course of two days 16-17 February 2017.
The training will focus on accessing the international mechanisms in order to protect and promote the rights of migrant children, the child’s right to be heard and economic, social and cultural rights.
A practical case analysis will be part of the training. Trainers include experts from the ICJ and the Hague University.
The training is based on draft training materials prepared by the ICJ (to be published in the second half of 2017) and the ICJ Practitioners Guide no. 6: Migration and International Human Rights Law.
It is organized as part of the FAIR project co-funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme of the European Union and OSIFE.
As part of the project, this training follows the trainings on the rights of migrant children in Spain, Italy and Bulgaria, trainings in Germany, Greece and Ireland will follow this year.
Download the agenda in English here:
Malta-FAIR training-News-Agenda-2017-ENG
Feb 2, 2017 | News
Today, the ICJ in cooperation with the the Supreme Court of Turkmenistan holds a seminar on Comparative Approaches to Judicial Ethics.
The seminar, supported by the European Union, will be attended by judges of the Supreme Court of Turkmenistan as well as other judges.
ICJ experts, including Judge Vladimir Borissov, former judge of the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan, Judge Georg Stawa, the President of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), and others will present comparative perspective and international standards related to the judicial ethics, accountability and guarantees for judges.
This is the second such event the ICJ holds in Turkmenistan. The first event, organized in June 2016, was dedicated to the issue of international obligations in national courts.
Turkmenistan-Judicial ethics seminar-News-web story-2017-RUS (full story in Russian, PDF)
Turkmenistan-Seminar Ethics-Agenda-2017-ENG (agenda in English, PDF)
Turkmenistan-Seminar Ethics-Agenda-2017-RUS (agenda in Russian, PDF)
Feb 2, 2017 | Новости, Статьи
Сегодня МКЮ в сотрудничестве с Верховным Судом Туркменистана проводит семинар «Сравнительные подходы к судейской этике».
Семинар проходит при поддержке Европейского Союза. В нем примут участие судьи Верховного Суда Туркменистана, а также другие судьи.
Эксперты МКЮ, среди которых Владимир Борисов, бывший судья Верховного Суда Казахстана, судья Георг Става, Председатель Европейской комиссии по эффективности правосудия (CEPEJ), и другие представят сравнительные подходы и международные стандарты, связанные с судейской этикой, подотчётностью судей и гарантиями их защиты.
Это уже второе мероприятие такого рода, которое проводится МКЮ в Туркменистане. Первый семинар, прошедший в июне 2016 года, был посвящён проблеме международных обязательств в национальных судах.
Turkmenistan-Judicial ethics seminar-News-web story-2017-RUS (полный текст на русском, PDF)
Turkmenistan-Seminar Ethics-Agenda-2017-RUS (повестка дня на русском, PDF)
Feb 1, 2017 | News
The ICJ, the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, Refugee Rights Turkey, Mülteci-Der and the ICJ-European Institutions begun today a two-year project to enhance access to justice for migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in Turkey.
The project, which also aims to ensure protection of their rights, at the national and international levels, is co-funded by the European Union.
More information here: Turkey-ICJ project migrants-News-2017-ENG
