Though legal studies were started in Southeast Asia many years ago, it must be admitted that a great deal has yet to be done to place legal studies on a sound academic footing and to consolidate the efforts of law teachers on an all-Southeast-Asian basis.
The newly-appointed Secretary-General of the ICJ, Sir Leslie Munro, will be visiting Karachi in mid-January in connection with a three-month mission to the Far East.
This issue of the bulletin contains eight articles, all of them on subjects of topical interests (fundamental human rights, public security, labour laws, fair trials and death penalty).
This edition contains articles on the aspects of the Rule of Law in:
ICJ-Bulletin-12-1961-eng (full text in English, PDF)
ICJ Bulletin-12-1961-spa (full text in Spanish, PDF)
Dans ce bulletin: informations sur le Sénégal et la Suisse.
ICJ Bulletin-12-1961-fra (Texte complet en PDF)
The ICJ decided to invite a number of well-known judges, professors and practitioners to form an independent committee charged with the task of investigating events in Tibet in a detached and judicial manner and reporting to the Commission on the field of its inquiry.
HRC62: Joint Statement Urging States to Act with Urgency to Protect Civilians in El Obeid
UN human rights experts find Egypt’s detention of activist Ahmad Assayed Suleiman (“Gika”) arbitrary and call for his immediate release
HRC62: Joint oral statement in the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
Joint Statement on Viet Nam’s Transnational Repression in Thailand