On March 6, 1980 the government of the Republic of Costa Rica formally submitted to the UN Commission on Human Rights the Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture which is published in this pamphlet.
The American Association for the International Commission of Jurists has traditionally been devoted to the doctrine that the Supremacy of the International Rule of Law, coupled with an Independent Judiciary, is the best guarantee of Human Freedom.
This is the record of a colloquium on the role of human rights in the formulation of the foreign policies of the United Kingdom and the United States.
Study undertaken by Hans Thoolen, Executive Secretary of the ICJ, and published as CCIA Background Information 1978/No. 8.
The activities of the International Commission of Jurists in the six years 1971-1977 have continued to be directed on the one hand to the positive promotion of human rights and their legal protection and on the other to the study and publicising of violations of human rights and the Rule of Law. This reports contains a brief account under subject headings of the more important activities under both aspects of the work. Detailed summaries of the different kinds of activity will be;found in the appendices.
annual report 1971 1977-1978-eng (full text in English, PDF)
More than fifty years on: enforced disappearance, the families who named it, and the reframing of international protection
Türkiye: Osman Kavala must be immediately released following European Court order to quash his conviction
Sudan: ICJ joins call to extend UN Fact-Finding Mission and strengthen accountability
ICJ hosts Johannesburg roundtable on the draft Crimes Against Humanity Treaty with the Malala Fund and other civil society actors