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.
The purpose of the review is to focus attention on the problems in regard to which lawyers can make their contribution to society in their respective areas of influence and to provide them with the necessary information and data.
This edition features articles on:
ICJ Review-9-1972-eng (full text in English, PDF)
ICJ Review-9-1972-spa (full text in Spanish, PDF)
This report was written by William J. Butler, to the ICJ, and George Obiozor, to the Defense and Education Fund of the International League for the Rights of Man.
The authors “examined all of the pertinent documents and newspaper clippings, and in addition, visited with the Burundi Ambassador to the United Nations. The comments expressed herein are not necessarily those of the organizations to which the undersigned are attached, but are offered in the spirit of focusing public opinion not only on a ‘consistent pattern of gross violations of fundamental freedoms’ but also on the need to provide social and economic aid to developing countries in the second state of decolonization, so that political liberty and freedom can develop uninhibited by social and political unrest or tribal conflict.”
Burundi-affair-thematic report-1972-eng (full text in English, PDF)
In this issue, the ICJ set up a Commission of three prominent international lawyers to enquire into the reported violations of human rights and the rule of law in East Pakistan since March 1971 and to report with recommendations.
Due to the outbreak of war between India and Pakistan in December 1971, it became necessary to cancel the enquiry. However, as a great deal of valuable documentary evidence had been already collected, it was decided that the Secretariat of the ICJ should prepare a staff study on the events up to the end of 1971, covering the ground of the proposed enquiry.
The scope of the study was extended to consider the application of the principle of self-determination of peoples, the role of the UN and the role of India. The factual account and findings of the study are based partly on contemporary newspaper accounts, partly sworn depositions of refugees in India, and partly on oral and written statements of evidence given to the Secretariat of the ICJ between October 1971 and March 1972.
In addition, this edition features articles on:
ICJ Review-8-1972-eng (full text in English, PDF)
ICJ Review-8-1972-spa (full text in Spanish, PDF)
Impunité, crimes contre l’humanité et disparitions forcées.
ICJ Review-8-1972-fra (Texte complet en PDF)
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