International Commission of Jurists
CIJL Yearbook: the judiciary in a globalized world, vol. VII, 1999

CIJL Yearbook: the judiciary in a globalized world, vol. VII, 1999

Jan 1, 1999

This issue of the CIJL Yearbook contains:

  • Editorial
  • The Judiciary and Constitutionalism in a Democratic Society, by Idmail Mahomed
  • The Role of International Financial Institutions in Judicial Reform, by Diego Garcia-Sayan
  • The Courts of the Future, by Michael Kirby
  • The UN Specia l Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, by Param Cumaraswamy
  • Judicial Independence vs. Judicial Accountability: A Debate
  1. An Introduction, by P. N. Bhagwati
  2. A Comment, by Jerome J. Shestack
  • Reflections on Judicial Independence, Impartiality, and the Foundation of Equality, by Claire l’Heureux-Dubé
  • A Note on the CIJL Protection Work, by Marie José Crespin

CIJL Yearbook-judiciary in a globalized world-VII-1999-eng (full text in English, PDF)

ICJ Review no. 60 (June 1998)

ICJ Review no. 60 (June 1998)

Jun 1, 1998

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.

The national constitutions and other topics examined in this special issue of the Review bring out one point forcefully: the evolving African constitutionalism is a constitutionalism of human rights and liberty. In all the constitutions discussed, the themes o f democracy and respect for human rights are emphasised prominently. There is experimentation in new forms of governance, sure enough, but the thread running through these experiments is an insistence on democratic legitimacy – with the meaning of democracy left open as the experiments unfold.

This special edition is constructed as such:

  • Introduction:
      -The evolving African constitutionalism, by Bertrand G. Ramcharan
  • Articles:
      -Elements of constitutionalism, by Louis Henkin
      -Constitutionalism in Africa: emerging trends, by Mpazi Sinjela
      -The Rule of Law and political liberalisation in Africa, by Amedou Ould-Abdallah
      -Africa and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by Kofi Kumado
      -The Ghanaian constitutionalism of liberty, by Bertrand de Rossanet
      -Innovations in the Interim and 1996 South African Constitutions, by Jeremy Sarkin
      -The ‘No Party’ or ‘Movement’ democracy in Uganda, by George B. Kirya
      -Ethiopia: constitution for a nation of nations, by Fasil Nahum
      -The Algerian Constitution: a constitution based on the separation of powers and the protection of individual and collective freedoms, by Abdallah Baali
      -The Supreme Court and its role in the Egyptian judicial system by Awad Mohammad El-Morr, Abd El-Rahman Nossier and Adel Omar Sherif
      -Human rights and the structure of security forces in constitutional orders: the case of Ethiopia, by James C. N. Paul
      -Election and electoral systems in Africa: purposes, problems and prospects, by Amare Tekle
      -African conflict prevention mechanisms: the evolving doctrine of democratic legitimacy, by Bertrand G. Ramcharan
      -Victims of abuse of power with special reference to Africa, by Daniel D. Ntanda Nsereko
  • Document:
      -The question of the impunity of perpetrators of human rights violations – a letter from the Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the United Nations
  • Basic texts:
      -African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (1981)
      -Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (1998)
      -Harare Declaration of Human Rights (1989)
      -Harare Commonwealth Declaration (1991)
      -Bloemfontein Statement (1995)
      -The Windhoek Declaration on Democratic Institutions and the Transition to Democracy in Africa (1993)

ICJ Review-60-1998-eng (full text in English, PDF)
ICJ Review-60-1998-spa (full text in Spanish, PDF)

 

Le droit à la réparation des victimes de violations des droits de l’Homme

Le droit à la réparation des victimes de violations des droits de l’Homme

Jan 1, 1998

Lorsque les violations massives des droits de l’Homme sont considérées dans le cadre du système international, il est paradoxal que la plus grande attention soit toujours portée aux violations en tant que faits et pratiques.

Mais que les personnes qui sont concernées par ces faits et pratiques, les auteurs comme les victimes, soient restées largement en marge du champ d’action que se soit au niveau national comme international.

Cependant, c’est au cours de ces dernières années, que cette donne aura quelque peu évolué. La création de tribunaux ad hoc pour l’exYougoslavie et le Rwanda, ainsi que le projet actuel de création d’un tribunal pénal international et permanent, sont autant de signaux clairs de la détermination de la communauté internationale à combattre l’impunité et d’insister sur la responsabilité criminelle des auteurs de violations des droits de l’homme. La Commission internationale de juristes (CIJ) se félicite de ces développements et les soutient.

Suite dans le PDF ci-dessous:

right to reparation-compilation-report-1998-eng-fra-spa (Texte complet en anglais, français et espagnol – PDF)

Report on activities – 1996 & 1997

Report on activities – 1996 & 1997

Jan 1, 1998

The Report chronicles the activities of the ICJ over the past two years. The primary objective of the ICJ is to promote understanding, institutionalization and observance of the Rule of Law, the Independence of the Judiciary and the legal protection of Human Rights world-wide.

Evidence abounds in the Report of gains in these fields in the two years under review.

“For the past two years, the Commission has engaged itself on two major international initiatives. These are the International Criminal Court and the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights.”

(citation from the Foreword by Kofi Kumado, Acting Chairman of the Executive Committee).

ICJ report on activities 1996-1997-annual report-1998-eng (full text in English, PDF)

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