International Commission of Jurists

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Jun 3, 2025	The Judicial Tug-of-War: Democracy at Stake	In the grand theater of American politics, the judiciary stands as a silent sentinel. Yet, its role is increasingly under siege. Populist leaders, like former President Trump, have turned judges into scapegoats. They paint them as obstacles...
Jun 1, 2025	Opinion: Michael Gregory: Like many populist leaders, Trump accuses judges of being illegitimate obstacles to safety and democracy	Trump, for example, has called for the impeachment of James Boasberg, a federal judge who also issued orders blocking the deportation of immigrants in the U.S. to El Salvador. Attorney General Pam Bondi has said that Boasberg was “trying to...
Jul 18, 2023	Tunisia anti-fake news law criminalises free speech: Legal group	Tunis, Tunisia – A leading human rights group has slammed the use of a Tunisian law criminalising the spreading of “fake news” to stifle free speech in the country. The Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has criticised t...
Jul 11, 2023	Nepal’s Progressive March Towards Social Justice for Sexual Minorities	Recent rulings by the Nepalese Supreme Court demonstrate the increasingly progressive society for sexual minorities in the high mountain country. While the current government continues to fight these orders, Nepal has quietly become known a...
Mar 17, 2023	Neglect for Human Rights Helped Produce the Crisis in Tunisia	Tunisians are taking to the streets following President Kais Saied’s harsh crackdown against his political opponents. Amid the protests, many international observers have expressed concern over potential human rights violations committed by...
Nov 22, 2021	Amnesty urges Pakistan to end ‘abhorrent’ enforced disappearances	Islamabad, Pakistan – Human rights group Amnesty International has called for Pakistani authorities to end the use of enforced disappearances as a tool of state policy, as it releases a new briefing documenting the effect of such illegal ab...
Aug 10, 2021	Why COVID-19 Vaccines Should Be Mandatory In South Africa	COVID-19 Vaccines. Photo by Nataliya Vaitkevich from Pexels
Jun 22, 2021	Cryptocurrency Implementation: El Salvador Opposition Party Deputy Sues President Nayib Bukele For Overlooking Crypto's Environmental Impact	Joseph Henry, Tech Times 22 June 2021, 04:06 am An opposition party member in El Salvador has issued a lawsuit filing to President Nayib Bukele for allowing bitcoin implementation without knowing its dangerous effects on the environment. Th...
Apr 7, 2021	Recent African Court Ruling Spells Trouble for Rusesabagina and Rwanda	Portrayed as a hero in the 2004 Oscar-nominated film Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina has recently been charged with terrorism in Rwanda, sparking international outrage. Rwandan authorities arrested Rusesabagina in August 2020 after he fell ...
Dec 15, 2020	Egypt’s Crackdown on EIPR: Instrumentalizing Counterterrorism to Silence Dissent	On Nov. 3, a group of foreign ambassadors and diplomats representing 12 countries and the European Commission gathered at the offices of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). The group was present to discuss the state of human...
Sep 2, 2020	ICJ raises concern on SC decision in Bhushan case — says it’s inconsistent with international standards	The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has joined 1,800 other lawyers calling for the Indian Supreme Court to reassess its standards of criminal contempt after the Prashant Bhushan case verdict. The international human rights organis...
Jun 5, 2020	Southeast Asia’s Overlooked Foreign Fighter Problem	The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continues to confront a dilemma: what to do with the fighters accused of fleeing to Syria to join the Islamic State. To the extent that this issue gets any airtime in English-language press, the focus tend...
Aug 19, 2018	Libya's House of Cards: Elections Without Institutions	Editor’s Note: After years of civil war in Libya, the recent plan to hold elections there seems like a rare ray of sunshine, creating hope that the country may be on the path to peace. Jason Pack and Rhiannon Smith of Libya-Analysis, howeve...
Aug 12, 2016	The Law Under Attack in Pakistan	Earlier this week, a suicide bomber outside a crowded hospital in Quetta, Pakistan killed at least 74 people, most of them judges or lawyers, and wounded dozens more. Yesterday, another blast in Quetta wounded an additional 13 people. The p...
	‘Feeling like prisoners’: The plight of Rohingya refugees today	Five years ago, a violent campaign by security forces in Myanmar sparked a mass exodus of about 730,000 Rohingya, who – carrying their belongings on their backs and sometimes crowding onto makeshift bamboo and jerry-can rafts – fled in sear...
	Pakistani court sentences woman to death for WhatsApp ‘blasphemy’	Islamabad, Pakistan – A Pakistani court has sentenced a Muslim woman to death for committing “blasphemy” by sharing images deemed to be insulting to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad and one of his wives, also considered a holy personage by many Mus...
	End protest crackdown: UN, rights groups tell Sri Lanka president	The United Nations and several prominent international human rights organisations have condemned the repeated use of emergency regulations against peaceful protesters by the Sri Lanka government. They have urged the newly appointed Sri Lank...
	Singapore executions under scrutiny as more hanged for drugs	When Angelia Pranthaman walked on stage in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to unveil a new song written by her brother on death row, she told a story about the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates. Like Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, Socrates was sentence...
	Advocacy group calls on Sri Lanka to repeal ‘anti-terror’ law	The Sri Lankan government must repeal a controversial security act, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said on Tuesday, adding that the proposed reforms by the right-wing government were “woefully inadequate”. The Prevention of T...

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When was International Commission of Jurists founded?

International Commission of Jurists was founded in 1952.

What has the press written about International Commission of Jurists?

Parsers VC has collected 20 articles mentioning International Commission of Jurists, among them “The Judicial Tug-of-War: Democracy at Stake” (Jun 3, 2025) and “Opinion: Michael Gregory: Like many populist leaders, Trump accuses judges of being illegitimate obstacles to safety and democracy” (Jun 1, 2025).

Is International Commission of Jurists still active?

Yes, International Commission of Jurists is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 27, 2026.