The events in East Pakistan, 1971: a legal study
This Staff Study covers the events in East Pakistan from March to December 1971, together with a discussion of some of the legal issues involved.
ICJ report on activities, 1966-1971
The activities of the ICJ in the five years 1966 to 1971 have continued to be directed on the one hand to the positive promotion of human rights and their legal protection and, on the other hand, to studying and publicizing violations of human rights and the Rule of Law.
This report contains:
- a summary of publications
- political trials
- interventions with governments
- international conferences, congresses and seminars
- cooperation with the UN and other international organisations
- cooperation with other NGOs
- activities of national sections.
ICJ-report on activities 1966-1971-annual report-1972-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Apartheid in South Africa and South West Africa: a study
Whether it be in regard to the rule of law or to the rules of humanity, the policies of racial discrimination practized in Southern Africa are indefensible.
The right to privacy: conference outcomes
On May 22-23 1967, an important Conference of Nordic Jurists and legal experts from different regions of the world on ‘The right to Privacy” was held in Stockholm. It was organised by the Swedish section of the ICJ.
The Rights to Privacy is of growing importance and this was the first international legal Conference at which this Right was considered comprehensively. The conclusions of this conference were not restricted in their application to the Nordic countries only and are intended to be of universal value.
right to privacy-working paper-1967-eng – Working paper on Right to privacy and “rights of the personality”, as submitted at Conference (full text in English, PDF)
right to privacy-working paper-publication-1967-eng – Working paper on Right to privacy and “rights of the personality”, as published consequently as Acta VIII of the Instituti Upsaliensis Iurisprudentiae Comparativae (full text in English, PDF)
Conclusions of the conference:
Right to privacy-seminar report-conclusions-1967-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Working paper:
right to privacy-working paper-1967-eng (full text in English, PDF)
The right to privacy: comparative survey, Stockholm, May 1967
The purpose of the present study is to provide a basis for discussion on a legal problem related to the right to privacy.
This may be briefly described as the question of how to define and protect a person’s legitimate interest in being, as an American judge has put it, “let alone” , i.e. in defending his private sphere of life against intrusions committed by public servants or private subjects—particularly against such intrusions as do not fall, because committed in subtler ways, within the well-established definitions of torts and offenses against persons and property committed by means of physical violence—and in defending himself against the publication of facts pertaining to that sphere of life, including such elements as his name and likeness.
right to privacy-working paper-1967-eng (full text in English, PDF)
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