The ICJ has published the report on the Constitutional Court Proceedings and Judgment on the “Foreign Agent” Amendments to the NGO Law. The report analyses the hearing of the case before the Constitutional Court, in March 2014, which was observed by the ICJ.
The ICJ, together with JUSTICE and NJCM, today published two commentaries on the proposed directives on provisional legal aid and legal aid in European Arrest Warrant Proceedings and procedural rights for children suspected or accused in criminal proceedings.
Today, the ICJ published the Greek translation of its Practitioners’ Guide n°6 on migration and international human rights law.
The Practitioners Guide analyses the protection afforded to migrants by international law and the means to implement it at national and international levels.
The Guide synthesizes and clarifies international standards on key issues, in particular:
migration and international human rights law-practitioners guide-2014-greek (Guide in Greek – PDF)
The ICJ has submitted information to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in preparation for the Committee’s examination of the fourth periodic report of the Netherlands under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
During its pre-sessional working group meeting in September 2014, the Committee will adopt a ‘List of Issues’ for the examination in May-June 2015 of the fourth periodic report of the Netherlands under the CRC. To assist the Committee in preparation of its List of Issues, the ICJ’s submission raises issues concerning:
The ICJ considers the recent decision of the Collegium of Lawyers of Astana, which found no legal ground to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Nurlan Beysekeyev in relation to his representation of a client in Court, to be in line with international standards on the role of lawyers.
ICJ hosts Johannesburg roundtable on the draft Crimes Against Humanity Treaty with the Malala Fund and other civil society actors
Kenya: ICJ co-hosts judicial dialogue on obstetric violence, human rights and the law
Libya: Authorities must promptly implement the Structured Dialogue’s human rights recommendations
Nepal: Government actions threaten judicial independence