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10 unusual facts about International Commission of Jurists


Chris Nyst

He is a senior member of the International Commission of Jurists and was a special adviser to the UN investigation into human rights violations in East Timor.

Eli Whitney Debevoise

Notably, he was a founder of the International Commission of Jurists, one of the first global human rights organizations.

History of Uganda

In 1978, the International Commission of Jurists estimated that more than 100,000 Ugandans had been murdered during Amin's reign of terror; some authorities place the figure as high as 300,000—a statistic cited at the end of the 2006 movie The Last King of Scotland, which chronicled part of Amin's dictatorship.

International Commission of Jurists

One of the key areas of concern for the 106 Congress delegates was the case of Dr. Walter Linse, a West German lawyer and the Acting President of the ICJF.

Janelle Saffin

She took a particular interest in the fate of East Timor and Burma, and was an official observer for the International Commission of Jurists at the 1999 independence referendum in East Timor.

Landau Commission

In 1984 International Commission of Jurists published a report by Law in the Service of Man called "Torture and Intimidation in the West Bank - The case of al-Fara'a Prison."

Maurice Ashkanasy

He was instrumental in the construction of the Owen Dixon Chambers and was chairman of the Victorian section of the International Commission of Jurists, of which he was also Australian vice-president.

Niall MacDermot

From 1970 to 1990, he was Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists, succeeding Sean MacBride.

Operation Spectrum

Prominent examples of external organizations that challenged the PAP during the 1987 ISA arrests are the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Amnesty International, World Council of Churches and Asia Watch.

Wilfred Nderitu

Wilfred Ngunjiri Nderitu is a former Chair of the Governing Council of the Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).


Enoch Dumbutshena

A former member of the International Commission of Jurists, he unsuccessfully attempted to launch a political career of his own in 1993 by founding the free-market Forum Party.