The ICJ announced today at its Geneva headquarters a world-wide Contest on the theme The Role of the Lawyer in the Economic and Social Development of his Country within the Framework of the Rule of Law.
Dans ce bulletin: informations sur le Sri Lanka, la Chine, la Tchécoslovaquie, la Grèce, l’Inde, le Kenya, la Pologne, le Tibet et les Nations Unies.
ICJ Bulletin-10-1960-fra (Texte complet en PDF)
The 10th edition of the bulletin reflects on the major international legal events of 1959 and outlines the issues of the coming period and the policies adopted to address them.
The previous issues of the bulletin as well as the present one contain articles on the problems of the rule of law in new and nascent countries side by side with reports on legal developments in older States.
The 1960s have seen rapid strikes made by former colonial territories towards complete independence. Whether the rule of law will find expression in the public life of newly independent states is naturally a matter of concern to the ICJ. The opportunity is there for all countries to choose for themselves, without foreign interference and with the freedom, welfare and progress of their peoples as their only guide.
This issues focuses on aspects of the rule of law in:
ICJ Bulletin-10-1960-eng (full text in English, PDF)
ICJ Bulletin-10-1960-spa (full text in Spanish, PDF)
The ICJ presents in this Report to the international legal community the results of a thorough although not exhaustive inquiry into the problems created by the systematic application of the principle of racial separation (apartheid)1 in the Union of South Africa.
India: Joint statement urging Indian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release human rights defender and student activist Umar Khalid
HRC60: Statement by the International Commission of Jurists in the Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
HRC60: International Commission of Jurists in the General Debate under Item 2
Serbia: Political leaders must cease interference with the judiciary