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@icjurists.bsky.social🚨 Employment opportunity: The ICJ is seeking an Associate Legal Adviser – Africa Programme (100%), based in South Africa or Lesotho. The role focuses on human rights, legal research, advocacy, and ICJ projects in #Lesotho.
👉 Apply by 26 October 2026. www.icj.org/about/jobs-i...
@icjurists.bsky.socialAt #HRC63, the ICJ and partners urged #Cambodia to release all arbitrarily detained defenders and halt impunity for extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and forcible renditions, and asked how to curtail transnational repression. www.icj.org/hrc63-icj-an...
@icjurists.bsky.socialIn #Johannesburg, the ICJ brought together lawyers, human rights defenders, and victim advocates from across anglophone #Africa to explore non-criminal justice pathways to strengthen access to redress for victims of human rights violations and abuses. www.icj.org/africa-regio...
@icjurists.bsky.socialThis meeting took place on the margins of various ICJ engagements in Johannesburg. She was joined by Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh, Africa Director, and Kate Vigneswaran, Global Accountability Initiative Director. 2/2
@icjurists.bsky.socialJustice Aruna Devi Narain, ICJ Commissioner and Judge of the Supreme Court of Mauritius, recently paid a courtesy call to Justice Dunstan Mlambo, Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa, at the South African Constitutional Court. 1/2
@icjurists.bsky.socialAt #HRC63, the ICJ and HRW called for the protection of Black African migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Tunisia and Libya, and urged European States to stop outsourcing migration control to authorities committing abuses. www.icj.org/hrc63-icj-an...
@icj-mena.bsky.socialReposted by @icjurists.bsky.social📢 The @icjurists.bsky.social is hiring two consultants for final external evaluations for 2 Multi-Year Projects:
1️⃣ Documentation & Accountability for gross human rights violations in #Libya
2️⃣ Rule of law & judicial independence in #Tunisia
Apply by 27 September ⬇️
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@icjurists.bsky.socialAt #HRC63, the ICJ raised concerns over torture, unlawful executions, and almost complete impunity in #Libya, and called on the Council to re-establish an effective human rights monitoring and reporting mechanism. www.icj.org/hrc63-icj-ra...
@icjurists.bsky.socialAt #HRC63, the ICJ raised concern over torture, executions and impunity in #Libya, and called for an effective human rights monitoring and reporting mechanism.
Read the ICJ statement: www.icj.org/hrc63-icj-ra...
@icjurists.bsky.socialAt #HRC63, the ICJ urged the renewal and strengthening of the FFM on Venezuela. Continued arbitrary detention, lack of judicial independence, and obstacles to international oversight make its work indispensable.
@icjurists.bsky.socialThe ICJ and partner organisations have raised concerns about attacks on the rule of law, judicial independence, and access to justice in #Zambia following the 13 August election. www.icj.org/joint-statem...
@icjurists.bsky.socialAt #HRC63, the ICJ called on #Egypt to implement the UN Working Group’s Opinions and immediately release all persons arbitrarily detained. The ICJ considers an investigation into the possible commission of crimes against humanity warranted. www.icj.org/hrc63-icj-ra...
@icjurists.bsky.socialDemocracy depends on courts that are free to act — and judges & lawyers who can do their work without fear.
On #InternationalDemocracyDay, the ICJ reaffirms: justice system independence is not optional. It is the foundation of human rights and the rule of law.
#Democracy #RuleOfLaw #IC
@icjurists.bsky.socialOn #InternationalDemocracyDay, the ICJ urges Zambia to uphold democracy beyond the ballot box: release arbitrarily detained opposition leaders & lawyers, reopen courts, and ensure judicial independence. Democracy fails when its institutions do.
#Zambia #RuleOfLaw #ICJ
@icjurists.bsky.socialThe ICJ welcomes the UN CRPD Committee’s newly adopted Guidelines on identifying and addressing intersectional discrimination against girls, adolescents, women, and older women with disabilities. We are glad to have contributed to this process through our 2025 submission. www.icj.org/wp-content/u...
@icjurists.bsky.socialThe ICJ convened a webinar on enforced disappearances in Myanmar, highlighting the importance of safe documentation, preservation of evidence, and meaningful support to families as essential pathways towards truth, justice, and accountability.
👇Read more:
www.icj.org/myanmar-as-a...
@icjurists.bsky.social#HRC63: The ICJ raised alarm over repression in #Tunisia and widespread, systematic arbitrary detention in El Salvador, including enforced disappearances and denial of fair trial rights. The ICJ called for accountability and protection of the rule of law. www.icj.org/hrc63-icj-ra...
@icjurists.bsky.socialAt #HRC63, the ICJ and IBAHRI called on States to protect lawyers, human rights defenders, victims, and survivors in Myanmar from intimidation and reprisal, and to support accountability mechanisms.
👉 Read more: www.icj.org/hrc63-icj-ca...
@icjurists.bsky.social🎙️ New podcast: Dialogues for Judicial Independence. How is justice weakened from within and how can it be protected? Guatemalan judge Yolanda Pérez analyzes the selection processes, the criminalization of operators, and the paths to a solution.
🎧 Listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjcY...
