(September 29, 2025) – Tajikistan’s authorities have wrongfully imprisoned a human rights lawyer for 10 years for exercising his human rights| International Commission of Jurists
On 18 September 2025, at the Asia-Pacific meeting of the UN Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum, the ICJ co-hosted a discussion session titled “From Regulatory Twilight Zone to Algorithmic Equality: Advancing International Law, Corporate Responsibility and Women’s Rights in the Digital and AI Era.” The ICJ and other participants considered how to tackle the… Continue Reading Asia-Pacific: Business and Human Rights Forum Participants Consider Strategies to Ensure Companies Resp...| International Commission of Jurists
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today launched a new report titled “From Exclusion to Equality: Advancing Access to Justice for Persons with Disabilities in Lesotho,” showing that while the Lesotho authorities have made substantial strides towards securing access to justice for persons with disabilities, a great deal more must be done to fulfil their… Continue Reading Lesotho: Further measures needed to ensure access to justice for persons with disabilities – New ICJ Rep...| International Commission of Jurists
Today the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and local partners, the People’s Matrix and Seinoli Legal Centre, launched the Reform for Inclusion, Support and Empowerment (RISE) project in Maseru, to bolster the efforts of civil society in Lesotho in gaining greater legal and other protections to safeguard survivors of gender-based violence. In Lesotho, an… Continue Reading Lesotho: ICJ initiates project to combat sexual and gender-based violence The post Lesotho: ICJ initiates p...| International Commission of Jurists
Twelve legal and human rights organisations intervene in proceedings against the executive board ahead of trial. Criminal and civil proceedings a| International Commission of Jurists
On 24–26 August 2025, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), together with the Centre for Independent Journalism, Malaysia (CIJ), and t| International Commission of Jurists