The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is concerned by the recent response of the Swiss Federal Council (i.e., the Swiss government) to ruling of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the landmark case Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland.
Today, the ICJ will argue a case before the Supreme Court of Appeal, as an amicus curiae, that the rights to housing and work for persons working in the informal sector to reclaim waste for recycling must be protected in line with international law and standards.
As the Constitutional Court begins deliberations in a highly consequential case concerning sexual abuse in the South African Military, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has submitted argument that South Africa bears obligations under international law to ensure that courts and tribunals, including military courts, are competent, independent, impartial and allow for a fair and public hearing.
The ICJ is concerned by the declaratory and non-binding decision of the National Council, the Swiss Parliament’s lower chamber, on 12 June 2024, inviting the Federal Council, the Swiss Government, effectively to ignore the landmark ruling of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland.
With the trial of nine defendants accused of the Pylos shipwreck of 14 June 2023 scheduled to begin on 21 May, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) calls on the Greek prosecutorial authorities to drop the charges against the accused and to conduct an independent and effective investigation into the circumstances of the shipwreck.
