GICJ offers internships in the fields of international law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, journalism, social media, administration, and fundraising.
GICJ documents human rights violations that take place in Iraq and reports them to the concerned bodies of the United Nations such as the Human Rights Council and the UN Special Procedures. The aim of this process is to ensure that all human rights...
Our courses are designed for anyone interested in human rights, including lawyers, university students, human rights activists, journalists and NGO members.
Saida Ahmad Baghili – The face of starvationPhoto 1. Saida Afmad Baghili on wheelchair in the Al Thawra hospital, Yemen, 25 October 2016
Yemen has always been among the poorest countries in the world and has always faced challenged linked to...
Inside Guantanamo, when the “war on terror” justifies all meansMohamedou Ould Slahi was born in Mauritania from a poor family. When he was only 18, he won a prestigious scholarship to study in Germany, where he lived for years. In 1991 and 1992, he did what...
Ali Shallal al-QaysiIn 2004, photos of Iraqi prisoners tethered to dog leashes and electrical wires dominated the news. The centre of the scandal was Abu Ghraib - one of the world’s most notorious prisons. At the time,...
The toll for freedomThe Syrian conflict has triggered negative consequences and has worsened the already fragile conditions of a developing country and a modernising society. The level of economic and social...
In the Rubble of their HomesIn Halaweh, a Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills, in which the Israeli army had conducted a demolition four days earlier on 2 February, a few Palestinian residents welcomed us in front of...
Jamalida Begum – Rohingya Survivor Escapes HorrorApproximately 1 million Rohingya people reside in Myanmar (Burma), mainly in the Rakhine State (formerly Arakan, an independent and sovereign state) that is situated along the East Coast of the Bay...
Omran Daqneesh – a silence that shakes every conscience On August 2016, the world’s conscience was shaken by the picture of a five-year-old boy, covered in dust and blood, sitting in the back of an ambulance, visibly shocked and weary. The little boy,...
Laxmi Agarwal - The Acid Attack SurvivorLaxmi Agarwal was 15 years old when she became the victim of a brutal act of revenge in Delhi in 2005. She met with this fate after refusing a marriage proposal from a family friend who became...
Zaidoun Mamoun al-SamaraOn January 4, 2004, a group of US soldiers in Samarra, Iraq, murdered Zaidoun Mamoun al-Samarrai, a young Iraqi man who was not yet twenty years old.
On January 4, 2004, a group of US soldiers in...