FIDH -Fédération internationale pour les droits humains

Day of International Criminal Justice: Victims ignored, justice denied - Act Now! The international justice system has faced unprecedented threats over the past year: interferences and attacks by States threatening the independence of justice, mistrust and disengagement from institutions like the International Criminal Court. This has allowed human rights violations and atrocities to escalate, causing devastating suffering for civilians. ✊ Despite this, human rights defenders and civil society, among which FIDH -Fédération internationale pour les droits humains and its member organisations, have not given up the fight. A fight to hold perpetrators accountable. A fight to make justice and reparations accessible, equal, meaningful and effective for victims of international crimes. ➡️ This means documenting and denouncing international crimes and human rights violations, and engaging in litigation alongside victims for example. ⚖️Without access to justice, victims and survivors are unable to exercise and defend their rights. This is why, on this Day of International Criminal Justice, FIDH and its partners from the Global Initiative Against Impunity call on States to act now, respect their international obligations and deploy every tool at their disposal - legal, political, diplomatic, and economic - to honor their commitments towards international justice.

✊ #FreeViasna: Today marks 4 years since Viasna Human Rights Center members Ales Bialiatski, Valiantsin Stefanovic, and Uladzimir Labkovich were arbitrarily detained in Belarus. Their health and well-being are at serious risk. FIDH and over 40 civil society organisations call for their immediate and unconditional release, and for an end to the persecution of all Belarusian human rights defenders. 👇 Read our full statement here: https://lnkd.in/dgfbRYsh

🚨 The International Federation for Human Rights condemns the #US government's U.S. Department of State punitive sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied #Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese. This is an attack on #internationallaw, the United Nations, and on every victim who dares to pursue justice and accountability. 🇵🇸 These sanctions are a blatant attempt to silence those exposing violations against the Palestinian people and to deny them access to justice and accountability for atrocity crimes, including what FIDH has denounced as an ongoing #genocide. Francesca Albanese is being targeted for fulfilling her UN mandate: reporting on and denouncing international crimes in the occupied Palestinian Territory. ⚠️ This isn’t about one expert. It’s a warning to all who support the International Criminal Court‘s mandate to investigate, prosecute, and try the world's worst crimes: stay silent or face retaliation. 🚫 Sanctioning a UN Special Rapporteur for cooperating with the ICC — while smearing her with baseless accusations — is a grave attack on the independence of human rights institutions. It mirrors past efforts by the US administration to intimidate and delegitimize those working to expose grave crimes committed by its allies. 📢 States must speak out, clearly and publicly. Stand up for international law and human rights. Defend the ICC and victims' fundamental legal rights. Protect those who work for justice. No justice without accountability! ⚖️ The rule of law is under attack. We must not look away.

⚖️ FIDH and Armanshahr | OPEN ASIA welcome the ICC arrest warrants against two Taliban leaders for gender persecution On 8 July 2025, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants against Mr Haibatullah Akhundzada, Supreme Leader of the Taliban, and Mr Abdul Hakim Haqqani, Chief Justice of the Taliban, for the crime against humanity of gender persecution committed in Afghanistan from 15 August 2021 until at least 20 January 2025. FIDH -Fédération internationale pour les droits humains and OPEN ASIA | Armanshahr Foundation have documented how the Taliban policies systematically exclude women from all aspects of public life, including education, and most sectors of employment. Survivors of gender-based violence have no access to legal recourse, and the few existing protection mechanisms have been dismantled. Such a deliberate system of oppression amounts to gender apartheid. States should not provide legitimacy to the Taliban by extending political recognition. ➡️ See FIDH and members' press release of January 2025 on the ICC Office of the Prosecutor's requests of arrest warrants: https://lnkd.in/eaNDNfhK ➡️ See FIDH's resolution on the need to recognise gender apartheid as a crime under international law: https://lnkd.in/gv-byVnu

📢 FIDH -Fédération internationale pour les droits humains joins 85 civil society organisations calling on International Criminal Court States Parties, including 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇫🇷 France, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇳🇿 New Zealand, 🇬🇧 the UK, and others, to support, rather than stall, Rome Statute amendments that would enable the Court to deliver justice for victims of aggression. 📌 Happening now: States Parties to the ICC #RomeStatute are meeting in a special session at United Nations Headquarters in New York to review the 2010 Kampala Amendments on the crime of aggression. ⚖️ Adopting long-overdue amendments would allow the Court to exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression on equal footing with other core crimes. ⚠️ Unlike genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, the ICC’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression remains severely restricted. States Parties may currently opt out, and the Office of the Prosecutor is barred from investigating acts of aggression committed by nationals of non-States Parties, even when those acts occur on the territory of a State Party. 📣 We call on ICC states parties to fully harmonise the ICC’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression to allow the ICC to meaningfully exercise its jurisdiction over this crime. This is more than a legal technicality: it is about closing accountability gaps and strengthening international justice. 🌍 What happens now is a chance for States Parties to seize the opportunity to empower the ICC to deliver justice for all victims of Rome Statute crimes including aggression. 📄 Read our statement now: https://lnkd.in/dNAKYP95

🎬 Nos voix comptent. Nos revendications sont claires. Face à la montée des offensives anti-droits, les féministes francophones prennent la parole au Conseil des droits de l’Homme de l’ONU. 👉 Avec l’Alliance Féministe Francophone, nous portons 5 priorités essentielles : - Défendre les droits acquis. - Garantir l’accès aux lieux de pouvoir. - Assurer les droits sexuels et reproductifs. - Mettre fin aux violences sexistes et sexuelles. - Financer les mouvements féministes. Nous refusons les reculs. Nous exigeons l’égalité, ici et partout. 📢 Pour les droits. Pour la justice. Pour toutes. L’AFF est une initiative portée par la FIDH - International Federation for Human Rights, Equipop, et le Mediterranean Women's Fund - Fonds pour les Femmes en Méditerranée pour renforcer la participation des féministes francophones dans les instances internationales.

As His Holiness the Dalai Lama turns 90, Tibet’s fight for freedom and self-determination remains as urgent as ever. For decades, Tibetans have faced interference in their right to choose their own future. Self-determination is not just a right; it’s a fundamental principle of human rights that cannot be ignored. Tibetans must have the freedom to preserve their culture, religion, and identity without external control. The world must stand in solidarity with Tibet, amplifying their voices and defending their rights. #Tibet #HumanRights #SelfDetermination #StandWithTibet #CulturalPreservation #TibetanRights

Can one escape justice for crimes against humanity... simply because they're acting on behalf of the State? On July 4, the French Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation) will examine a key question: Can immunities - functional or personal - prevent prosecutions for war crimes or crimes against humanity? Two cases relating to Syria, and supported by our member organisation Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), will be examined by the Court during this hearing: - One concerns a former high-ranking official, initially charged for his alleged role in financing the regime. – The other concerns the chemical attacks carried out on August 5 and 21, 2013, in Eastern Ghouta, for which an arrest warrant has been issued against former Syrian head of state Bashar al-Assad. In both cases, the issue of the immunity of the defendants is at stake. This hearing will have a significant impact on the fight against impunity for international crimes. The Court's decisions will be handed down on July 25, 2025. FIDH is fighting to ensure that no one can hide behind a state function to escape international justice. 🎬 In this video, our lawyer Chloé Pasmantier explains what is at stake in this historic hearing. More on this: https://lnkd.in/dsJgDRYA

During the ICC seminar “Victims’ Strategy 2025: A Renewed Commitment” (1–2 July 2025), the Victims’ Rights Working Group (VRWG) published a new briefing paper: Turning Rhetoric into Reform: Strengthening Outreach and Victim Participation at the ICC. The VRWG is a network of 179 civil society organisations working to uphold the rights and interests of victims in International Criminal Court (ICC) proceedings. Co-led by FIDH and REDRESS and hosted by the Coalition for the ICC (CICC), the VRWG was reconvened in 2024 to renew its engagement on victims’ rights, including contributing to the Court’s review of its 2012 Victims’ Strategy. While the current revision of the Strategy offers an important opportunity, consultations with Court staff and VRWG members have revealed concerns about the lack of clarity, consistency, and meaningful inclusion of victims in the revision process. This briefing paper draws on those consultations to identify concrete areas for reform. It outlines persistent challenges and offers targeted recommendations to address three key issues: (1) the absence of early, two-way outreach; (2) restrictive jurisprudence that undermines meaningful victim participation; and (3) operational and procedural obstacles, including serious shortcomings in legal aid implementation. The paper sets out six key recommendations aimed at the Court and States Parties for urgent action: 1. Institutionalise Early, Victim-Centred Outreach 2. Ensure Coherence and Consistency in Victim Participation 3. Fully Implement and Operationalise the 2024 Legal Aid Policy and Remove Arbitrary Legal Aid Caps under a Fair and Equitable Funding System 4. Reduce Procedural and Logistical Barriers to Participation 5. Embed Accountability and Evaluation into the Strategy’s Implementation 6. Ensure Sufficient Funding and Inclusion of Victims’ Rights into Key Performance Indicators ICC States Parties also have a critical role to play. They must ensure that the revised Victims’ Strategy is adequately funded, that legal aid is fully implemented, and that performance indicators align with a rights-based, victim-centred model of justice. The ICC’s commitment to victims is what sets it apart within the international justice system. In the face of mounting external threats, from political backlash to shrinking multilateral space, realising this commitment is not optional. It is essential to the Court’s credibility, impact, and long-term survival. Read the full VRWG briefing paper: https://lnkd.in/d5frESDk 📸 REDRESS. A training on victims' rights before the ICC in Uganda

📰 #Tunisie : En 2011, la révolution tunisienne a ouvert la voie à une ère d'espoir. Mais depuis 2021, ce processus démocratique a été brutalement renversé. Kaïs Saïed, président du pays, a concentré tous les pouvoirs entre ses mains : pour consolider son autorité, son régime a détourné des lois censées protéger les droits fondamentaux, en les transformant en instruments de répression politique. En voici quelques exemples 👇 https://lnkd.in/ePXZKae7 #Tunisie #dictature #justice #loi #droitshumains #FIDH