The decision to devote this number of the review predominantly to events concerning Africa was prompted by two important conferences held this year. The conclusions of both conferences are reproduced in full in this issue.
The first conference, on ‘African legal process and the individual’, was convened in April in Addis Ababa by the UN Economic Commission for Africa. It is believed to be the first African conference to be convened by Africans dealing with human rights.
The second was the international conference in Colorado in September on ‘Justice and the individual: the rule of law under current pressures’, convened by the ICJ as guests of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. One of the principal themes discussed was racial discrimination, with particular reference to South Africa.
In addition, this edition features articles on:
- Human rights in the world:
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- -Guinea
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- -Greece
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- -Northern Ireland
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- -Paraguay
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- -Senegal
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- -Spain
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- -Taiwan and Philippines
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- -USA – California
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- -USSR
- Articles:
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- -South Africa and the rule of law, by Michael Davis
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- -Uganda’s Law Development Centre, by R. M. Cooper
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- -Zambia: the new law association, by Leo Baron
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- -Internment: Uganda and West Bengal, by Peter Evans
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- -Law and socialism in Chile, by José Antonio Viera-Gallo
- Judicial application of the rule of law: the International Court of Justice Opinion on Namibia
- Basic texts: Resolutions adopted by the Conference of African Jurists, finale document of the Aspen Conference
- ICJ news
ICJ Review-7-1971-eng (full text in English, PDF)
ICJ Review-7-1971-spa (full text in Spanish, PDF)