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Thailand: Authorities must do more to ensure access to justice and effective remedies for extraterritorial corporate human rights abuses

The conclusion drawn at a workshop hosted by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Thailand’s Ministry of Justice on 30 November and 1 December 2023, in Ayutthaya province, was that Thailand should step up efforts to provide real access to justice for victims of corporate human rights ab

Cambodia: Human Rights Council should adopt meaningful resolution to address spiralling rights crisis

On 8 September, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and 6 other organizations sent an open letter to the UN Human Rights Council to draw attention to the worsening human rights crisis in Cambodia, and to appeal for support for a resolution on strengthening and extending scrutiny of the sit

2023 UN Human Rights Prize awarded to civil society and Indigenous Peoples Global Coalition for the right to a healthy environment!

Faith groups back calls for UN special rapporteur for climate and human rights

Indigenous people's lives depend on their lands, but threats are growing worldwide

Deforestation in West Papua, Indonesia, in 2014 (Flickr/EU FLEGT and REDD+ facilities) The threats facing Indigenous people opposing industrial operations on their lands discrimination, harassment and assassination all disproportionately affect women. And the coronavirus pandemic has done little to reduce the danger, say Indigenous and faith leaders. Indigenous women human rights defenders are at the forefront of the resistance against the effects of extractive industries and, more generally, the model relying on the exploitation of natural resources, including through mining, logging, [agricultural] monocultures and dams, Sandra Epal-Ratjen, international advocacy director for Franciscans International, said at a virtual event April 26. The webinar sponsored by Franciscans International, which brought together United Nations officials with Indigenous leaders from Brazil, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Guatemala, coincided with the 20th session of the U.N. Perma