Nov 4, 2022 | News
Persons with disabilities in Eswatini often face discrimination and other barriers that inhibit their full and equal participation in the justice system. As magistrates courts are often the first port of call for those interacting with the justice system in Eswatini, magistrates are critical actors in ensuring that persons with disabilities are provided with the procedural and other accommodations necessary to fully engage in court proceedings.
Sep 6, 2022 | Events, News
“Judges should take concrete steps to break barriers that women are still facing in accessing justice and should play key role to ensure that courts are more gender responsive and women are able to access justice equally and without discrimination”.
Aug 19, 2022 | News
Today the ICJ condemned the actions by the Israeli authorities to forcibly close the offices of seven leading Palestinian human rights organizations, effectively obliterating much of the critical human rights protective work carried out in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
Aug 9, 2022 | News
Singapore’s authorities must immediately halt any impending executions, and cease using punitive cost orders against lawyers representing death-row inmates, said the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today.
On 5 August 2022, Singapore executed two persons, Abdul Rahim Shapiee and Ong Seow Ping, for “drug possession for the purpose of trafficking”. Their execution followed the Court of Appeal’s denial of Abdul Rahim Shapiee’s stay of execution request based on a lawsuit he and 23 other death-row inmates had filed alleging obstructions in their access to lawyers.
