Thirty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights : the need for an International Convention against Torture
Study undertaken by Hans Thoolen, Executive Secretary of the ICJ, and published as CCIA Background Information 1978/No. 8.
The application of the November 1977 “law of defence and guarantee of public order”
This report covers a mission to El Salvador in July 1978 to study the application of the November 1977 “law of defence and guarantee of public order”.
First and second supplement to the ICJ report on Uruguay of June 17, 1974
The assassination on 19 December, 1974, of Colonel Raman Trabal, the military attaché at the Uruguayan embassy in Paris, has been the occasion for a renewed wave of arrests and a worsening of the condition of detention of political suspects.
Report to the mission to Uruguay
Report of a mission carried out in April/May 1974 by Mr Niall MacDermot, Secretary General of the ICj and Miss Inger Fahlander, research officer of Amnesty International.
Gross violations of human rights : a practical guide for non-governmental organisations wishing to file communications with the United Nations
A number of NGOs have expressed the need for a short hand-book to serve as a guide to NGO’s wishing to file communications with the U.N. relating to gross violations of human rights. The ICJ invited Miss Glenda da Fonseca and Mr. George Duke to prepare this handbook.
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