38 Global Civil Society Organizations file joint brief in US lawsuit challenging legality of Trump’s ICC sanctions
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The Trump administration’s escalating campaign against the International Criminal Court (ICC) is reaching far beyond the judges, prosecutors, and human rights groups it has sanctioned, chilling civil society engagement with the Court and undermining victims’ access to justice, Amnesty International, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and 36 other Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) said […]

>> On 22 September 2026, 38 civil society groups jointly filed an _amicus curiae_ (‘friend of the court’) brief with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York in support of a lawsuit filed by the American Friends Service Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch, and the Open Society Institute, which challenges the legality of sanctions imposed under Executive Order (EO) 14203. The sanctions have targeted #ICC prosecutors and judges, a UN human rights expert, and three Palestinian human rights groups…