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NGOs register of complaints and communications to the African Commission opened at the ICJ

NGOs register of complaints and communications to the African Commission opened at the ICJ

Jun 11, 1993 | News

Conclusions and recommendations of the 4th NGO Workshop, in Banjul March 26-28.

NGOs mandated the Africa Desk of the ICJ to open a Register of Complaints. Copies of all Communications sent to the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) under Arts 55 and 56 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights are now to be sent to the Central File.

ICJ Review no. 50 (June 1993)

ICJ Review no. 50 (June 1993)

Jun 1, 1993

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 marks the 25th anniversary of the first UN Conference on Human Rights held in Tehran and was published the same year as the second UN Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in June 1993. Over these 25 years there have been as many historical breakthroughs in human rights as genuine disappointments. The UN Conference on Human Rights took place against a background of unimaginable violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as Somalia.

In addition, this edition features:

  • Introduction by Adama Dieng, ICJ Secretary-General
  • Articles:
    • -The universality of human rights, by Fali S. Nariman
    • -Conditionality, by Kofi Kumado
    • -International human rights mechanisms, by Helena M. Cook
    • -A system of international criminal prosecution is taking shape, by Christian Tomuschat
    • -Women’s human rights, by Florence Butegwa
    • -The human rights of the child, by Joaquin Ruiz-Giménez
    • -Non-governmental organizations and the UN World Conference on Human Rights, by Fateh Azzam
  • Commentaries:
    • -New models of human rights protection: preventive peacekeeping by Bertrand G. Ramcharan
    • -The Global Campaign for Women’s Human Rights, by Charlotte Bunch
  • Documents:
    • -ICJ preliminary evaluation of the UN World Conference on Human Rights
    • -Appeal by Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
  • Basic text:
    • -Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

ICJ Review-50-1993-eng (full text in English, PDF)
ICJ Review-50-1993-spa (full text in Spanish, PDF)

 

 

Seminal on egal education in Nepal

Seminal on egal education in Nepal

Jun 1, 1993

The Nepal Section of the ICJ and the ICJ organized a national seminar on legal education on December 25,26 and 27,1992.

Participants from a cross section of areas connected to the legal education took part in the seminar.
Lawyers, law teachers, education planners, curricula specialists from different parts of the kingdom joined in the deliberations and expressed their views about what the shape of legal education should be.

The report contains an introductory note, speeches, a summary of the recommendations and working papers:

  • A Critical Assessment on Testing and Evaluation System of Legal Education in Nepal, by – Madhav Prasad Acharya
  • The Existing Curricular Structure of the Legal Education in Nepal: An Analysis, by Rajit Bhakta Pradhananga and Kishor Silwal
  • An Exploration into the Prospective Model of Legal Education System in Nepal, by Dr. Shyam Kant Silwal and Beda Prasad Siwakoti
  • Clinical Legal Education : An Assessment and Perspectives, by Satish Krishna Kharel

plus the List of participants.

Nepal-legal education-seminar report-1993-eng (full text in English, PDF)

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