La Revista de la CIJ no. 20 (Junio 1978)
Impunidad, crimen de lesa humanidad y desaparición forzada.
ICJ Review-20-1978-spa (La Revista en Español, PDF)
ICJ Review no. 20 (June 1978)
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. This edition features articles on:
- Human rights in the world:
- -Ghana
- -Democratic Kampuchea
- -El Salvador
- -South Africa
- -South Korea
- -United States
- Commentaries:
- -Human Rights Committee
- -UN Commission on human rights
- -UNESCO communications procedure
- Articles:
- -India’s ex-untouchables by Harinder Boparai
- -Compensating prior discrimination: the Bakke case by Robert H. Kapp
- -Nuclear proliferation and safeguards by Alan F. Westin
- ICJ news
- -Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
ICJ Review-20-1978-eng (full text in English, PDF) ICJ Review-20-1978-spa (full text in Spanish, PDF)
The decline of democracy in the Philippines: a report of missions
In September 1972, President Marcos proclaimed Martial Law in the Philippines, declaring it necessary to meet the threat to national security posed by the Communist Party, the New People’s Army, and the secessionist struggle of certain Moslem elements in Mindanao and Sulu.
ICJ Review no. 10 (June 1973)
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.
This edition features articles on:
- Notes and comments:
- -Human Rights Commission
- -Bangladesh and Pakistan Constitutions
- -Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland
- -Czechoslovakia
- -India
- -France – the mediator
- -Malaysia
- -Spain – the Catalans & College of Advocates
- -Uruguay
- Human rights in the world:
- -Torture continues
- -Greece
- -Indonesia
- -Morocco
- -South Africa
- -Sri Lanka
- -USSR
- Articles:
- -Independence of the judiciary in Italy, by an Italian judge
- -The rule of law in Turkey and the European Convention on human rights, a staff study
- -Preventive detention in Nigeria, by D.O. Aihe
- Basic texts: Principles of Equality in the Administration of Justice
- ICJ news
ICJ Review-10-1973-eng (full text in English, PDF)
Crimes against humanity in Bangladesh
In April 1972, Niall MacDermot, Q.C, Secretary-General of the ICJ, paid a visit to Dacca with two objects in view.
The first was to obtain further information for the study which the staff of the International Commission of Jurists was preparing on the events in East Pakistan in 1971. The second was to seek to persuade the government of Bangladesh that, if, as stated, they were going to bring to trial senior Pakistani generals and officials on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, they should do so under international penal law before an international tribunal containing a majority of judges from neutral countries.
In order to explain why this was urged upon the Bangladesh government,the nature of the violations of human rights which occurred on both sides will be outlined briefly, followed by comments upon their implications under international penal law, before dealing with the trial procedures which the Commission suggested should be followed.
Reprinted from The International Lawyer, volume 7 number 2, of April 1973.
Bangladesh-crimes against humanity-1973-eng (full text in English, PDF)
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