Apr 1, 1975
This report is based upon interviews and extensive research into the laws, executive decrees, judicial decisions and periodical collections.
The author examine firstly the position in which lawyers who engage in the defence of political detainees in Argentina find themselves. This position is one of the aspects of the process of political violence which the country is undergoing and concerning which, in the second part of the study ,the author presents certain data.
Part II covers
- the state of siege
- the subversive organisations
- the activities of the para-police groups
- attacks on the judiciary
- arrests
- torture on political prisoners
- freedom of the press
Argentina-defense lawyers-fact-finding mission report-1975-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Argentina-defense lawyers-fact-finding mission report-1975-spa (full text in Spanish, PDF)
Dec 1, 1973
Une étude de la CIJ paru dans le périodique Objectif: Justice vol. 5 no.4, octobre-décembre 1973
La présente étude a été élaborée par la CIJ pour être publiée dans Objectif : Justice. Elle constitue la mise à jour d’une étude similaire, préparée par la Commission en 1967 et, en outre, la première d’une série d ’études, à paraître dans de prochains numéros de Objectif : Justice, sur les atteintes portées à la Déclaration universelle en Namibie et dans les territoires sous domination portugaise.
De l’introduction de Niall MacDermot, Secrétaire général de la CIJ :
“Les auteurs de la présente étude se sont efforcés d ’exposer en un langage simple et clair les lois qui, en Afrique du Sud, continuent de priver la personne humaine de ses droits élémentaires, tels que proclamés voici vingt-cinq ans dans la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme. Si les lois en question visent au premier chef les Africains d’origine et les autres catégories de non-Blancs, elles sont également dures à l ’égard de ces Blancs, faiblement minoritaires, qui tentent de défendre l’égalité et la liberté humaines.
Le mépris dans lequel sont tenus en A frique du Sud les principes les plus élémentaires de la primauté du droit, cela
en dépit de la condamnation universellement exprimée tant à l’ONU qu’en d’autres milieux, ne rend que plus évidente la nécessité d ’un mécanisme international efficace pour la protection des droits de l’homme.”
South Africa-violations Universal Declaration-thematic report-1973-fra (full text in French, PDF)
May 1, 1973
The ICJ has undertaken a short study of the Rule of Law and administration of justice in Turkey since the events of March 1971. This has been done with particular reference to Turkey’ s obligations as a party to the European Convention on Human Rights.
The study is in three parts:
- Introduction, in which the events leading up to and following the introduction of martial law are briefly summarized.
- The Turkish Constitution, in which the principal provisions relating to human rights and the recent amendments to them are examined.
- Turkey and the European Convention, in which the proclamation of martial law, the measures taken under it, and the amendments and additions to the permanent law which have been made since its proclamation, are considered.
Turkey-rule of law and ECHR-thematic report-1973-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Jan 1, 1973
In Nov. 1971, the UK Government appointed a Committee of three Privy Counsellors to consider ‘whether, and if so in what respects, the procedures currently authorized for the interrogation of persons suspected of terrorism and for their custody while subject to interrogation require amendment’.
Jul 1, 1972
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)
