Report finds jurists at risk around the world
At least 447 jurists from 46 countries were targets of persecution in the last year as they carried out their work, the ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers reported today.
Attacks on Justice: the harassment and persecution of judges and lawyers, June 1991 – May 1992
This issue of Attacks on Justice covers the period between 1 June 1991 and 31 May 1992. The report, now in its fourth year, is issued annually by the ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers and documents cases of harassment and persecution of jurists throughout the world.
U.N. condemns disappearances: the ICJ praises landmark draft
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a draft declaration against forced “disappearances” on Friday, calling on states to take all possible measures to prevent and punish the practice.
ICJ celebrates 40 years on legal battlefront
At the first meeting of the ICJ, one of the participants, Walter Linse, was kidnapped and never seen again.
Attacks on Justice: the harassment and persecution of judges and lawyers, July 1990 – June 1991
This is the third annual report by the ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers cataloguing the harassment and persecution of judges and lawyers worldwide.
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