Mistake of Law? The Vanuatu Sedition Trial, Port Vila, 20 February – 7 March 1989

Mar 7, 1989

The International Commission of Jurists, Australian Section, appointed barrister Stuart Littlemore, a member of the Section’s Executive Council, to observe and report on the Vanuatu sedition trial which began on 20 February 1989.

Observation of the trial followed the protocol issued by the ICJ Geneva as “Guidelines for ICJ Observers to trials”. The Observer’s Report on the Vanuatu trial was presented to the Australian Section’s Executive Council meeting on 11 March 1989, and adopted by the Council on 12 March 1989.

Vanuatu-mistake of law-trial observation report-1989-eng (full text in English, PDF)

Report of Seminars on Legal Aid Services and Human Rights in Thailand

Jan 1, 1989

Human rights are among problems that have received inadequate attention from the Government. Abuses had spread into economic and social aspects of life. 

The Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, The Central Institute for Legal Aid, The Committee for Coordinating Human Rights Organizations and Matichon Newspaper with the support from Terre Des Hommes, The House Representative and especially the ICJ took the initiative to organize a seminar of people providing legal aid services, academics, lawyers and members of Parliament at the National Assembly on 21-23 September 1987 to discuss the ways and means to solve these problems.

It was also a good occasion for lawmakers to learn about the different aspects of human rights problems in order to find a way of encouraging their protection by Parliament in future.

Thailand-legal aid and human rights-seminar report-1989-eng (full text in English, PDF)