International Commission of Jurists
Jurists campaign for the establishment of a permanent International Penal Court

Jurists campaign for the establishment of a permanent International Penal Court

May 5, 1993 | News

Today, the ICJ launched a campaign for the establishment of a permanent International Penal Court to prosecute those responsible for gross violations of human rights and humanitarian law.

While welcoming the creation of the UN ad hoc Tribunal concerning the former Yugoslavia, the ICJ said that this ad hoc approach does not address the global need to bring all perpetrators of gross violations of human rights to justice.

“The massacres in Cambodia, wilful killings in Liberia, disappearances in Latin America, and torture and deportations of Palestinians, cannot go unpunished. Now, more than any other time in the past, the international community is ready to take practical steps towards the creation of a permanent International Penal Court,” said Adama Dieng, the ICJ Secretary General.

In its Position Paper released today, The Establishment of a Permanent International Penal Court, the ICJ addresses the question of why a permanent Court is needed and provides a blueprint for such a Court. The ICJ concludes with concrete recommendations.

CIJL Yearbook: legal protection of lawyers, vol. II, 1993

CIJL Yearbook: legal protection of lawyers, vol. II, 1993

Apr 1, 1993

For lawyers to be able to perform these crucial functions, they should be protected from improper interference. They should be able to organize themselves in free and independent bar associations. Law should embody adequate safeguards to allow them to function.

This second volume of the CIJL Yearbook concentrates on the role of lawyers in protecting human rights. It uses the 1990 UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers as a standard. These twenty-nine Basic Principles focus on the following issues:

  • provisions for effective access to legal assistance for all groups within society;
  • the right of the accused to counsel and legal assistance of their own choosing; $
  • education of the public on the role of lawyers in protecting fundamental rights and liberties;
  • training and qualifications of lawyers; the role of governments, bar associations, and other professional associations;
  • the right of lawyers to undertake representation of clients or causes without fear of repression or persecution; and
  • lawyers’ obligation to keep communications with clients confidential, including the right to refuse to give testimony on such matters

The second issue of the CIJL Yearbook contains:

Editorial, by Mona A. Rishmawi
Foreword, by P.N. Bhagwati

I. Articles

  • Legal Guarantees on the Role of Lawyers in Protecting Human Rights: The Indian Experience, by F.S. Nariman
  • Safeguards for Legal Independence in Egypt: Between Law and Practice, by Ahmad Nabeel El-Helali
  • The Independence of Lawyers Under Belgian Law, by Pierre Lambert
  • Cambodia: The Courts and the Constitution: A Point of View, by Basil Fernando

II. Reports

  • The Bar Council of England and Wales Human Rights Committee First Annual Report 1992

CIJL Yearbook- legal protection of lawyers-II-1993-eng (full text in English, PDF)

CIJL Yearbook- legal protection of lawyers-II-1993-fra (full text in French, PDF)

CIJL Yearbook- legal protection of lawyers-II-1993-spa (full text in Spanish, PDF)

Rapport de la mission de la Commission Internationale de Juristes: élections présidentielles au Madagascar

Rapport de la mission de la Commission Internationale de Juristes: élections présidentielles au Madagascar

Mar 1, 1993

Rapport sur la supervision de la révision/refonte des listes  électorales et autres missions de coordination et de suivi  relatifs au 1er tour  et en vue  du 2e tour des élections présidentielles malgaches de 1992  par  Malamine Kourouma, professeur de droit.

Conclusion: “En tout cas, la Commission des Communautés Européennes a été bien inspirée d’avoir ouvert et soutenu -et de continuer à soutenir- un Laboratoire de démocratisation dont la nature et le régime le disputent, à la fois, à une double première et un double succès. Rien, déjà, en l’état actuel des expériences comparées dans les interventions similaires, précédentes ou concomitantes, n’autorisant le moindre démenti.”

Madagascar-democratisation process(2nd tour)-fact finding mission report-1993-fra (full text in French, PDF)

Rapport de la mission de la CIJ: élections présidentielles au Madagascar

Rapport de la mission de la CIJ: élections présidentielles au Madagascar

Mar 1, 1993

Rapport sur la supervision de la révision/refonte des listes  électorales et autres missions de coordination et de suivi  relatifs au 1er tour  et en vue  du 2e tour des élections présidentielles malgaches de 1992  par  Malamine Kourouma, professeur de droit.

Conclusion: “En tout cas, la Commission des Communautés Européennes a été bien inspirée d’avoir ouvert et soutenu -et de continuer à soutenir- un Laboratoire de démocratisation dont la nature et le régime le disputent, à la fois, à une double première et un double succès. Rien, déjà, en l’état actuel des expériences comparées dans les interventions similaires, précédentes ou concomitantes, n’autorisant le moindre démenti.”

Madagascar-democratisation process(2nd tour)-fact finding mission report-1993-fra (Texte complet en PDF)

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