Judges for Judges
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Dutch foundation Rechters voor Rechters (Judges for Judges/ J4J) is an independent & non-political foundation set up by judges to support fellow judges abroad who have run into problems or risk problems on account of their profession. judgesforjudges.nl
🌍⚖️The new WJP Rule of Law Index 2025 is out! Judicial independence, the last line of defense against executive overreach, is weakening. The Index shows that judiciaries are losing ground to executive overreach, with rising political interference across justice systems. tinyurl.com/mwj2z5bf
October 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🌍⚖️The new WJP Rule of Law Index 2025 is out! Judicial independence, the last line of defense against executive overreach, is weakening. The Index shows that judiciaries are losing ground to executive overreach, with rising political interference across justice systems. tinyurl.com/mwj2z5bf
Tomorrow 28/10 the 2025 World Justice Project Rule of Law Index will reveal how justice, accountability, and fundamental freedoms are shifting across 143 countries.
www.addevent.com/event/XY2687...
👉 Explore the Data & Rankings starting Tuesday at: worldjusticeproject.org/index
www.addevent.com/event/XY2687...
👉 Explore the Data & Rankings starting Tuesday at: worldjusticeproject.org/index
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Tomorrow 28/10 the 2025 World Justice Project Rule of Law Index will reveal how justice, accountability, and fundamental freedoms are shifting across 143 countries.
www.addevent.com/event/XY2687...
👉 Explore the Data & Rankings starting Tuesday at: worldjusticeproject.org/index
www.addevent.com/event/XY2687...
👉 Explore the Data & Rankings starting Tuesday at: worldjusticeproject.org/index
🇵🇱⚖️Judge Piotr Gąciarek: The project on neo-judges presented by Minister Żurek ensures the safety of citizens and the stability of the system. (...) It would be great if President Nawrocki would contribute to resolving this difficult situation.
tinyurl.com/3yb87773
tinyurl.com/3yb87773
October 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
🇵🇱⚖️Judge Piotr Gąciarek: The project on neo-judges presented by Minister Żurek ensures the safety of citizens and the stability of the system. (...) It would be great if President Nawrocki would contribute to resolving this difficult situation.
tinyurl.com/3yb87773
tinyurl.com/3yb87773
⚖️ Read the report (🇬🇧🇪🇸) on barriers to justice. J4J joined the 🇨🇴Colombia Caravana that brought together 22 participants from across the 🌎, representing 9 international organisations & working in partnership with 7 Colombian grassroots organisations. 👀 www.colombiancaravana.org.uk/one-year-ago...
August 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
⚖️ Read the report (🇬🇧🇪🇸) on barriers to justice. J4J joined the 🇨🇴Colombia Caravana that brought together 22 participants from across the 🌎, representing 9 international organisations & working in partnership with 7 Colombian grassroots organisations. 👀 www.colombiancaravana.org.uk/one-year-ago...
🇨🇴⚖️Happy to present the Report of the VIII Visit of the International
Caravan of Jurists on Challenges in Accessing Justice today at the Embassy of Colombia in The Hague. Constructive discussion re the Recommendations to the Colombian state and to the international community.
Caravan of Jurists on Challenges in Accessing Justice today at the Embassy of Colombia in The Hague. Constructive discussion re the Recommendations to the Colombian state and to the international community.
August 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🇨🇴⚖️Happy to present the Report of the VIII Visit of the International
Caravan of Jurists on Challenges in Accessing Justice today at the Embassy of Colombia in The Hague. Constructive discussion re the Recommendations to the Colombian state and to the international community.
Caravan of Jurists on Challenges in Accessing Justice today at the Embassy of Colombia in The Hague. Constructive discussion re the Recommendations to the Colombian state and to the international community.
🇺🇸⚖️The theme of the latest Speak Up for Justice webinar (31 July) is, “Judges Break Their Silence: Attacks, Intimidation, and Threats to Democracy.”
A panel of federal judges and legal advocates speaking out! ⚖️🇺🇸You can watch the recording via this 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/speakupfor…
A panel of federal judges and legal advocates speaking out! ⚖️🇺🇸You can watch the recording via this 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/speakupfor…
August 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🇺🇸⚖️The theme of the latest Speak Up for Justice webinar (31 July) is, “Judges Break Their Silence: Attacks, Intimidation, and Threats to Democracy.”
A panel of federal judges and legal advocates speaking out! ⚖️🇺🇸You can watch the recording via this 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/speakupfor…
A panel of federal judges and legal advocates speaking out! ⚖️🇺🇸You can watch the recording via this 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/speakupfor…
De VS hebben financiële sancties ingesteld tegen rechter Alexandre de Moraes vh Braziliaanse Hooggerechtshof. Voor zover bekend is dit de eerste keer dat Washington de Magnitski-wetgeving inzet tegen een lid van de rechterlijke macht in een democratisch land.www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/vs-…
August 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
De VS hebben financiële sancties ingesteld tegen rechter Alexandre de Moraes vh Braziliaanse Hooggerechtshof. Voor zover bekend is dit de eerste keer dat Washington de Magnitski-wetgeving inzet tegen een lid van de rechterlijke macht in een democratisch land.www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/vs-…
📣 Impressive line-up on an urgent topic:
🛑 The Path to Authoritarianism – Backsliding Democracies and the Role of the Institutions ⚖️ (webinar)
📅Monday, July 7, 2025
🕓 4:00 – 5:50 PM (CEST)
✅ Registration required: backslidingdemocracies.org/registration
Judges for Judges is a proud supporter!
🛑 The Path to Authoritarianism – Backsliding Democracies and the Role of the Institutions ⚖️ (webinar)
📅Monday, July 7, 2025
🕓 4:00 – 5:50 PM (CEST)
✅ Registration required: backslidingdemocracies.org/registration
Judges for Judges is a proud supporter!
July 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
📣 Impressive line-up on an urgent topic:
🛑 The Path to Authoritarianism – Backsliding Democracies and the Role of the Institutions ⚖️ (webinar)
📅Monday, July 7, 2025
🕓 4:00 – 5:50 PM (CEST)
✅ Registration required: backslidingdemocracies.org/registration
Judges for Judges is a proud supporter!
🛑 The Path to Authoritarianism – Backsliding Democracies and the Role of the Institutions ⚖️ (webinar)
📅Monday, July 7, 2025
🕓 4:00 – 5:50 PM (CEST)
✅ Registration required: backslidingdemocracies.org/registration
Judges for Judges is a proud supporter!
May 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🇺🇸⚖️Judge Dugan filed the motion to dismiss the indictment on
May 14. It begins, “This is no ordinary criminal case, and Dugan is no ordinary criminal defendant.” With that, we are off to the races in what appears to be a blatantly political prosecution. ⚖️🇺🇸 open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
May 14. It begins, “This is no ordinary criminal case, and Dugan is no ordinary criminal defendant.” With that, we are off to the races in what appears to be a blatantly political prosecution. ⚖️🇺🇸 open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
May 16, 2025 at 5:50 AM
🇺🇸⚖️Judge Dugan filed the motion to dismiss the indictment on
May 14. It begins, “This is no ordinary criminal case, and Dugan is no ordinary criminal defendant.” With that, we are off to the races in what appears to be a blatantly political prosecution. ⚖️🇺🇸 open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
May 14. It begins, “This is no ordinary criminal case, and Dugan is no ordinary criminal defendant.” With that, we are off to the races in what appears to be a blatantly political prosecution. ⚖️🇺🇸 open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
⚖️🇭🇺 MABIE: On 4 April 2025 the draft law on the amendment of judicial laws (124 pages) was sent to the vast majority of judges in Hungary. The deadline for submitting comments to the NOJ is 9 April 2025. Such a procedure only gives the appearance of formal consultation. ⚖️🇭🇺 tinyurl.com/mfdcrk4y
April 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
⚖️🇭🇺 MABIE: On 4 April 2025 the draft law on the amendment of judicial laws (124 pages) was sent to the vast majority of judges in Hungary. The deadline for submitting comments to the NOJ is 9 April 2025. Such a procedure only gives the appearance of formal consultation. ⚖️🇭🇺 tinyurl.com/mfdcrk4y
Op 18 maart 2025 overleed tot ons verdriet onze oud-voorzitter Gerritjan van Oven. Hij heeft de stichting Rechters voor Rechters in 2009 nieuw leven ingeblazen en was tot zijn ‘pensionering’ in 2013 een ongelofelijk bevlogen en inspirerende voorzitter. tinyurl.com/4twdu63n
March 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Op 18 maart 2025 overleed tot ons verdriet onze oud-voorzitter Gerritjan van Oven. Hij heeft de stichting Rechters voor Rechters in 2009 nieuw leven ingeblazen en was tot zijn ‘pensionering’ in 2013 een ongelofelijk bevlogen en inspirerende voorzitter. tinyurl.com/4twdu63n
Chief Justice John Roberts, in a rare statement, is pushing back against Trump’s calls to impeach judges who rule against him 👉 www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
March 19, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Chief Justice John Roberts, in a rare statement, is pushing back against Trump’s calls to impeach judges who rule against him 👉 www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
🇮🇹⚖️Today (22/2/25) thousands of Hungarian judges, court staff and supporters marched to the ministry of justice in Budapest on Saturday, demanding judicial independence, freedom of expression for judges and better pay. ⚖️🇮🇹 www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
February 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🇮🇹⚖️Today (22/2/25) thousands of Hungarian judges, court staff and supporters marched to the ministry of justice in Budapest on Saturday, demanding judicial independence, freedom of expression for judges and better pay. ⚖️🇮🇹 www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
🇭🇺⚖️ Judges for Judges fully supports the efforts & challenges of the Hungarian judges who are demonstrating on the streets of Budapest on 22 February 2025. They speak out. And they need to. Independent courts matter. We stand behind you! ⚖️🇭🇺
👀Our statement:
tinyurl.com/468x4pr4
👀Our statement:
tinyurl.com/468x4pr4
February 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
🇭🇺⚖️ Judges for Judges fully supports the efforts & challenges of the Hungarian judges who are demonstrating on the streets of Budapest on 22 February 2025. They speak out. And they need to. Independent courts matter. We stand behind you! ⚖️🇭🇺
👀Our statement:
tinyurl.com/468x4pr4
👀Our statement:
tinyurl.com/468x4pr4
⚖️🇩🇪Great initiative! @verfassungsblog.de launched the Judicial Resilience Project:
How Vulnerable Is the German Judiciary? Shielding the constitutional order against authoritarian populist takeover by identifying & exposing vulnerabilities before they’re exploited. verfassungsblog.de/we-are-launc...
How Vulnerable Is the German Judiciary? Shielding the constitutional order against authoritarian populist takeover by identifying & exposing vulnerabilities before they’re exploited. verfassungsblog.de/we-are-launc...
February 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
⚖️🇩🇪Great initiative! @verfassungsblog.de launched the Judicial Resilience Project:
How Vulnerable Is the German Judiciary? Shielding the constitutional order against authoritarian populist takeover by identifying & exposing vulnerabilities before they’re exploited. verfassungsblog.de/we-are-launc...
How Vulnerable Is the German Judiciary? Shielding the constitutional order against authoritarian populist takeover by identifying & exposing vulnerabilities before they’re exploited. verfassungsblog.de/we-are-launc...
🇺🇳👀Please have a look at the reel that UN Special Rapporteur on Independence
of Judges and Lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite shared : www.instagram.com/reel/DEsJs5t...
of Judges and Lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite shared : www.instagram.com/reel/DEsJs5t...
January 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🇺🇳👀Please have a look at the reel that UN Special Rapporteur on Independence
of Judges and Lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite shared : www.instagram.com/reel/DEsJs5t...
of Judges and Lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite shared : www.instagram.com/reel/DEsJs5t...
👀Want to see and feel the impact of the 🇵🇱⚖️🇪🇺1000 robes March? Director Kacper Lisowski and producer Iwona Harris of Lollipop films (tinyurl.com/58j8aued) made a 12 min documentary. Everyone can watch A Thousand Robes (2020) now here: youtube.com/watch?v=osSgIU… 3/3
January 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
👀Want to see and feel the impact of the 🇵🇱⚖️🇪🇺1000 robes March? Director Kacper Lisowski and producer Iwona Harris of Lollipop films (tinyurl.com/58j8aued) made a 12 min documentary. Everyone can watch A Thousand Robes (2020) now here: youtube.com/watch?v=osSgIU… 3/3
🇺🇳UN Special Rapporteur on Independence
of Judges and Lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite, posted this statement on the Day of Judicial Independence: ohchr.org/en/special-pro… 2/3
of Judges and Lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite, posted this statement on the Day of Judicial Independence: ohchr.org/en/special-pro… 2/3
January 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🇺🇳UN Special Rapporteur on Independence
of Judges and Lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite, posted this statement on the Day of Judicial Independence: ohchr.org/en/special-pro… 2/3
of Judges and Lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite, posted this statement on the Day of Judicial Independence: ohchr.org/en/special-pro… 2/3
🇵🇱⚖️🇪🇺Five years ago, on 11 January 2020, hundreds of judges from more than 20 countries in Europe answered the call of independent Polish judges and gathered in Warsaw in what became known as the “1000 Robes March.”uniting thirty thousand people. 1/3
January 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🇵🇱⚖️🇪🇺Five years ago, on 11 January 2020, hundreds of judges from more than 20 countries in Europe answered the call of independent Polish judges and gathered in Warsaw in what became known as the “1000 Robes March.”uniting thirty thousand people. 1/3
Link to the extensive @hhc_helsinki background paper explaining the cases of judge András Kovács and X, a senior scientific reasearcher at the Kúria, showing how pressure is exerted through administrative means to attempt silencing judicial dissent.🇭🇺⚖️ helsinki.hu/en/attempts-at…
December 23, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Link to the extensive @hhc_helsinki background paper explaining the cases of judge András Kovács and X, a senior scientific reasearcher at the Kúria, showing how pressure is exerted through administrative means to attempt silencing judicial dissent.🇭🇺⚖️ helsinki.hu/en/attempts-at…
⚖️🇭🇺András Varga Zs., President of the Kúria, Hungary’s apex court, has suspended Judge András Kovács (picture) from his position of Head of Panel for a.o. criticism on the case allocation scheme. Read the critical post of @hhc_helsinki regarding this presidential retaliation tinyurl.com/4zym2fwj
December 23, 2024 at 1:54 PM
⚖️🇭🇺András Varga Zs., President of the Kúria, Hungary’s apex court, has suspended Judge András Kovács (picture) from his position of Head of Panel for a.o. criticism on the case allocation scheme. Read the critical post of @hhc_helsinki regarding this presidential retaliation tinyurl.com/4zym2fwj
⚖️🇭🇺 Res Iudicata issued a statement re the very problematic and opaque way the National Judicial Council authorized its president this week to sign a 4 party agreement with among others the MoJ on a comprehensive judicial reform in exchange for salary increase! 👀 www.facebook.com/100063743485....
November 22, 2024 at 12:44 PM
⚖️🇭🇺 Res Iudicata issued a statement re the very problematic and opaque way the National Judicial Council authorized its president this week to sign a 4 party agreement with among others the MoJ on a comprehensive judicial reform in exchange for salary increase! 👀 www.facebook.com/100063743485....
⚖️🇨🇴Waarom is de Bossche raadsheer Maria van de Schepop naar Colombia gegaan namens Judges for Judges? Lees het interview met haar: tinyurl.com/c268yvdb
November 15, 2024 at 7:29 AM
⚖️🇨🇴Waarom is de Bossche raadsheer Maria van de Schepop naar Colombia gegaan namens Judges for Judges? Lees het interview met haar: tinyurl.com/c268yvdb