The International Commission of Jurists has for many years sent international observers to leading trials in Morocco. Its observers have always been well received and offered all the usual courtesies for the accomplishment of their missions.
During the period of the Somoza government, the ICJ followed closely the violations of human rights occurring in Nicaragua.
The ICJ thematic report on the human rights records in Uruguay. The reports focuses mainly on political prisoners.
There is every indication that there is a regime which continues to practice repeated and systematic violations of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. Internally, any action for the respect of fundamental rights, as well as any resistance to the regime, is virtually impossible given the scope and extent of military repression.
The report contains information on:
Uruguay- human rights political prisoner-report-1980-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Impunidad, crimen de lesa humanidad y desaparición forzada.
ICJ Review-23-1979-spa (La Revista en Español, PDF)
The American Association for the International Commission of Jurists has traditionally been devoted to the doctrine that the Supremacy of the International Rule of Law, coupled with an Independent Judiciary, is the best guarantee of Human Freedom.
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