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Refugee Status Claims Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: ICJ Practitioners’ Guide n° 11 launched

Today, the ICJ publishes Refugee Status Claims Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity – A Practitioners’ Guide. The organization has decided to publish this guide for two main reasons. First, persecution of individuals motivated...

Enforced Disappearance and Extrajudicial Execution: the Right of Family Members – ICJ Practitioners Guide No 10 now also in English

Initially published in Spanish on 29 November 2015, the tenth book of the ICJ series of Practitioners Guides has now been translated into English. It can be downloaded below: Universal-PG Enforced Disappearance N10-Publications-Practitioners’ Guide-2016-ENG (English version...

Nueva Guía para profesionales (No. 10): “Desaparición forzada y ejecución extrajudicial: los derechos de los familiares”

El 27 y 28 de noviembre de 2015, en Lima y Ayacucho (Perú), la CIJ y el Equipo Peruano de Antropología Forense (EPAF) realizaron dos seminarios sobre los derechos de los familiares de víctimas de...

A Guide for the Litigation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Zimbabwe

This new Guide published today by the ICJ aims at providing legal practitioners and human rights advocates with updated knowledge about the applicable standards for the protection of economic, social and cultural rights (ESC rights)...

Enforced Disappearance and Extrajudicial Execution: Investigation and Sanction – ICJ Practitioners Guide No 9

Initially published in Spanish in March 2015, the ninth book of the ICJ series of Practitioners Guides has now been translated into English, Nepali, Thai and Turkish. It can be downloaded here or below: Universal-Enforced...

Training on migration, discrimination and human rights in Serbia

The ICJ-European Institutions, Group 484 and Praxis are holding a training on migration, discrimination and international human rights law starting on 22 April in Belgrade (Serbia).The training, delivered by the ICJ-European Institutions, includes officers of...

New ICJ Practitioners’ Guide N°8 : adjudicating Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at national level

International Law and the Fight Against Impunity: ICJ Practitioners Guide No 7 now available in English

Initially published in Spanish in September 2014, the seventh book of the ICJ series of Practitioners Guides has now been translated into English. It can be downloaded here or below: Universal-Fight against impunity PG no7...

Updated Practitioners Guide no. 6 on migration and international human rights law

The ICJ published today the 2014 update of its Practitioners Guide no. 6 on Migration and International Human Rights Law. The Practitioners Guide on Migration and International Human Rights Law analyses the protection afforded to...

Taiwan review of compliance with civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights

At the invitation of the Government of Taiwan and Covenant Watch, a coalition of NGOs in Taiwan, the ICJ led a three-day training programme in Taipei, Taiwan, on the UN treaty body periodic reporting process....

Raccolta di giurisprudenza su immigrazione e diritto internazionale

In seguito ai seminari tenuti a Milano e Roma lo scorso settembre, l’ICJ ha pubblicato il 7 dicembre 2012 una raccolta di giurisprudenza e normativa internazionale relativa ai diritti dei migranti e richiedenti asilo. Questa...

A Toolkit for Action to support the Ratification of the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR

Guía para Profesionales N°4: Orientación Sexual e Identidad de Género y Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos

Esta guía explica como el derecho internacional puede y debe ser usado para proveer a las víctimas de violaciones de derechos humanos en el campo de la orientación sexual o la identidad de género, de...

Guide pratique N°4: Orientation sexuelle, identité de genre et droit international des droits de l’Homme

Ce Guide pratique traite des questions de l’orientation sexuelle et de l’identité de genre en relation avec certains droits de l’Homme et libertés fondamentales. Il a pour objectif de clarifier le cadre juridique international existant...

Guide pratique N°2: le droit à un recours et à obtenir réparation en cas de violations graves des droits de l’Homme

Le présent Guide a pour but de donner un aperçu des principes juridiques internationaux qui régissent le droit des victimes de violations graves des droits de l’Homme à un recours et à réparation, en rassemblant...

Guía para Profesionales N° 5: Manual de Observación de Procesos Penales

La presente Guía para Profesionales presenta de forma sistematizada las normas y estándares internacionales que rigen la cuestión del juicio justo y del debido proceso legal en materia penal. La celebración de juicios justos es...

Guía para Profesionales N°3: Impunidad y graves violaciones de derechos humanos

La presente Guía para Profesionales sistematiza los principios jurídicos internacionales que rigen la cuestión de la impunidad de las graves violaciones de derechos humanos. La Guía aborda los conceptos de impunidad y de violación grave...

A manual on trial observation – Practitioners’ Guide N°5

Sexual orientation, gender identity and international human rights law – Practitioners’ guide, no. 4

Impunidad y graves violaciones de derechos humanos – Practitioners’ guide, vol. 3

The right to a remedy and to reparation for gross human rights violations – Practitioners Guide no. 2

Guía para profesionales N°2: El derecho a interponer recursos y a obtener reparación por violaciones graves de los derechos humanos

Esta Guía del Profesional trata de delinear los principios jurídicos internacionales que rigen el derecho de las víctimas de violaciones graves de los derechos humanos a interponer recursos y obtener reparaciones, recopilando jurisprudencia internacional sobre...

Guía para Profesionales Nº1: Principios Internacionales sobre la Independencia y Responsabilidad de Jueces, Abogados y Fiscales

Esta segunda edición actualizada de la Guía para Profesionales Nº1 brinda una explicación práctica de la aplicación de los principios internacionales sobre la independencia y responsabilidad de jueces, abogados y fiscales. A través de un...

International principles on the independence and accountability of judges, lawyers and prosecutors – Practitioners’ guide, no. 1

First published in 2004, the ICJ Practitioners’ Guide No. 1 provides legal practitioners and policy-makers with detailed and practical references on international standards on the independence of the judicial system, the legal profession and the...

The preparation and submission of civil society reports to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A step-by-step manual for non-governmental organisations

Summary: This manual was prepared by the International Commission of Jurists (hereinafter “ICJ”) as a means of assisting a wide-range of non-governmental organisations in producing effective civil society reports for submission to the United Nations...

Guide pratique pour les observateurs d’élections

Les missions d’observation d’élection ont pour but d’assurer la transparence et le bon déroulement du processus électoral. L’opération d’observation porte sur l’ensemble du processus électoral, à savoir l’enregistrement sur les listes électorales, la campagne électorale, le scrutin, son...

A paralegal trainer’s manual for Africa

In light of the potential role of paralegals as a catalyst for rural development in Africa, the ICJ has, in terms of its LRSA (Legal Services in Rural Areas) programme, organised paralegal training seminars in over ten African...

How to address communications to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)

Practical guide on the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) and its procedures. Following the 1991 NGO Forum in Banjul, the ICJ published this guide to enhance the understanding of African NGOs on the...

Planning, implementing and evaluating a paralegal training programme

The ICJ has been promoting a series of seminars in Asia, Africa and Latin America on the provision of legal services to the rural poor and other disadvantaged groups. The purpose is to discuss how...

Gross violations of human rights : a practical guide for non-governmental organisations wishing to file communications with the United Nations

A number of NGOs have expressed the need for a short hand-book to serve as a guide to NGO’s wishing to file communications with the U.N. relating to gross violations of human rights. The ICJ invited Miss Glenda...