Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reality's Representative. The jurists' commission does not try to make international law. It concentrates on specific violations of civil liberties. It sent observers to the political trial of Yugoslavia's Milovan Djilas and to South Africa's mass treason trial, and believes that their presence...
Real focus of the commission's interest, however, was its ambitious attempt to come up with a universally acceptable set of "principles, institutions and procedures . . . to protect the individual from arbitrary government and to enable him to enjoy the dignity of man." Right at the start, the jurists'...
At first, the atmosphere grew so tense that the resplendently robed Honorable Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh. Finance Minister of the federal government of Nigeria, felt obliged to do a bit of prodding. "Why are we so solemn?" he cried. "Let's cheer our speakers and try to be happy...
For eight years-fearing that it would become just one more platform for anticolonialist tirades-European colonial powers had opposed setting up a U.N. commission for Africa like those already in existence for Asia, Europe and Latin America. Not until last spring, and after U.S. prompting, did the U.N. finally...
Open Season. In his welcoming speech, Emperor Haile Selassie insisted that "economic and political progress should go hand in hand." For the next few days it was open season on the Europeans. Outvoted 9 to 6, they got not one single office on the commission. France in particular was constantly...