Sep 23, 1993
Report of a mission to Sri Lanka in May-June 1991 on behalf of the ICJ by Stephen C. Neff to study the mandate and operation of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry in respect of NGOs in Sri Lanka.
The NGO Commission consisting of seven eminent persons was established in December 1990 to report on the misuse of funds by NGOs, the legal framework for their supervision and on “such other matters that appear relevant to the
determination of the above matters”.
The report prepared by Dr. Neff was critical of a number of aspects of the work of the NGO Commission, including the breadth of its terms of reference and the oppressive nature of some of the requests for information
The report includes:
Preface
I. Background of the NGO Commission
A. The Appointment
B. The Commission’s Methods
II. Freedom of Association: International Legal Norms
III. Freedom of Association: Provisions in the Law of Sri Lanka and of Selected Other Jurisdictions
A. Sri Lanka
B. Selected Other Jurisdictions (India, United Kindgom, United States of America, Canada, Netherlands, Mauritius)
IV. Instructive Case-Law on Freedom of Association
A. General Considerations
B. India
C. United Kingdom
D. United States of America
1. Legislative Inquiries and Freedom of Association
2. Substantive Regulation of NGOs and Freedom of Association
V. The ICJ Mission to Sri Lanka (30 May – 6 June 1991)
VI. The Findings of the ICJ Mission to Sri Lanka
A. The NGO Community
B. The Donor Community
C. The Sri Lanka Government (including the NGO Commission)
VII. Recommendations to the Government of Sri Lanka
A. General Considerations
B. The NGO Commission
C. The Substantive Regulation of NGOs
Appendices:
- The Commissions of Inquiry Act of 1948 of Sri Lanka
- The Terms of Reference of the NGO Commission
- Notice to the Public from the NGO Commission
- Questionnaire Issued to NGOs by the NGO Commission
- Supplementary Questionnaire Issued to NGOs by the NGO Commission
- Voluntary Social Service Organizations (Registration and Supervision) Act of 1980 of Sri Lanka
Sri-Lanka-inquiry-presidential-commission-NGOs-report-mission-1991-eng (full text in English, PDF)
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)
Jun 1, 1993
More than four decades have passed since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights “as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and nations.”
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)
Feb 1, 1993
A la demande de la CIJ, Laïty Kama s’est rendu en qualité d’observateur à Bamako pour assister au procès de Moussa Traore, l’ancien Chef de l’Etat du Mali et de ses trente deux coaccusés.
Laïty Kama est Avocat Général près la Cour de Cassation du Sénégal et Expert du Groupe de travail sur la détention arbitraire de la Commission des Droits de l’Homme des Nations Unies.
A l’issue de sa mission, l’observateur a établi le présent rapport qui s ’articulera autour des points suivants :
- Genèse du procès
- La Juridiction désignée pour en connaître
- L’information et le renvoi des inculpés devant cette Juridiction
- La conduite des débats durant les audiences
- Les plaidoiries des Conseils des parties Civiles, le Réquisitoire du Ministère Public et les plaidoiries des avocats de la défense
- Le verdict
- Les commentaires de l’observateur
Mali-trial Moussa Traore-trial observation report-1993-fra (full text in French, PDF)
