Jun 1, 1976
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:
-Inter-American Human Rights Commission
-UN Human Rights Commission
-Dakar conference on Namibia
-Conference on humanitarian law – phase III, by S. Suckow
ICJ Review-16-1976-eng (full text in English, PDF)
ICJ Review-16-1976-spa (full text in Spanish, PDF)
Mar 1, 1976
These Draft Principles were originally recommended in 1975 for incorporation in the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.
Most violations of the hum an rights of arrested persons – particularly the use of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment – occur before a person is charged with a crime and while he is under interrogation or preventive detention. The International Commission of Jurists therefore recommended that the Standard Minimum Rules be broadened to protect such persons as well as form ally charged prisoners.
In response to the recommendation of the Fifth United Nations Congress and the United Nations General Assembly however, the Commission re-cast these principles as a separate instrum ent and subm itted it to the 32nd session of the United Nations Commission on H um an Rights, held at Geneva in February, 1976.
These principles, published here through the generosity of the J.M . Kaplan Fund, are still under consideration by the Human Rights Commission and its subordinate bodies.
Jan 1, 1976
The ICJ has for some time been following with interest and concern developments concerning the advancement and protection of human rights in Iran.
Jan 1, 1976
The assassination on 19 December, 1974, of Colonel Raman Trabal, the military attaché at the Uruguayan embassy in Paris, has been the occasion for a renewed wave of arrests and a worsening of the condition of detention of political suspects.
Jan 1, 1976
When the April 1974 revolution in Portugal brought about the downfall of the Portuguese African empire, the situation in Southern Africa was transformed.
