With the support of Open Society Foundations, and in collaboration with the Africa Judges & Jurists Forum, the ICJ today commenced its two-day conference on Rising Judicial Persecution of Human Rights Defenders in Africa, held in Pretoria, South Africa. (more…)
As Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-Ocha visits Myanmar to revive the stalled Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ), the governments of Thailand and Myanmar should cooperate to establish a legal framework protecting the human rights of the area’s residents, said the ICJ. (more…)
The ICJ’s Director of the International Law & Protection Programmes today addressed an international conference on strengthening cooperation in preventing terrorism, held in Baku, Azerbaijan. (more…)
The ICJ has called on the Human Rights Council and its members and observers, individually and collectively, to ensure that universal and regional standards and mechanisms reinforce rather than undermine universal human rights standards. (more…)
The ICJ today submitted a written statement calling on the UN Human Rights Council to extend the mandate of the open-ended intergovernmental working group (IGWG) on private military and security companies (PMSCs). (more…)
In a joint submission to the Committee against Torture concerning Peru, the ICJ and COMSIDEH-Peru called for recommendations concerning accountability for torture and ill-treatment of persons and the enhancement of measures to prevent and detect such conduct and to provide remedies to victims. (more…)
