The ICJ hosted live interviews with human rights defenders from Asia, Africa and Latin America to mark Pride Month, which is celebrated during the month of June in various parts of the world. The interviews took place from 22 June to 3 July 2020. (more…)
On 16 April 2020, the ICJ and other NGOs submitted a third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in the case Lapunov v. Russia (Application No. 28834/19). It concerns a Russian man, who argues that he was tortured during a crackdown on LGBTI people in Chechnya. (more…)
As South Africa enters into its second week of a 21-day lockdown, the ICJ calls on national, provincial and local government authorities to urgently implement measures to prevent sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and protect women and children from it. (more…)
A Feature Article by the Access to Justice for Women Team of the ICJ. (more…)
As of 8:00am CET this morning, the Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases tracker by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in the US recorded 13,103,290 confirmed cases of individuals who had contracted the COVID-19 disease in 188 countries, and 573,042 people who had succumbed to the virus. Read all the ICJ […]
Today, on the International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), the ICJ has released a briefing paper on Pakistan’s Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018. (more…)
