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INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW Professor Rebecca J. Cook 1992-1993 SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS FACULTY OF LAW UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO r V VV UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW Professor Rebecca J. Cook 1992-1993 SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS FACULTY OF LAW UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO / INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS TABLE OF CONTENTS SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS Statute of the I.C.J. 1 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.... 9 Organization Chart - U.N. 22 Canadian Participation in the U.N. Human Rights Instruments. 34 Relevant Provisions of the United Nations Charter. 35 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948.....' 42 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966. 46 Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966. 55 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966. 57 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948. 62 Canadian Criminal Code Provisions: War Crimes. 65 Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. 67 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. 75 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1966. 82 The European Convention on Human Rights and its Five Protocols. 89 American Convention on Human Rights, 1969. 97 African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Ill Sample Memorandum. 119 l Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from University of Toronto https://archive.org/details/internationalhum00cook_2 125 TABLE OF AUTHORITIES CASES Estrella v . Uruguay (74/1980) Report of_tllfi_Human-Biqbt? Committee G.A.O.R., 38th Session, Supp. 40 (1983) Annex XII (Human Rights Committee) The Greek Case (1969) 12 Yearbook of the European Convention of Human Rights 1 (European Comm'n of Human Rights) Ireland v. United Kingdom (1976) 19 Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights 512 (European Court of Human Rights) TREATIES AND DECLARATIONS Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1987 Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from being Subjected to Torture or Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1975 European Convention on Human Rights.and Fundamental Freedoms, 1950 Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, 1987 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1976 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 PUBLICATIONS Amnesty International Torture in the Eighties 1984 Cohen, Maxwell and Anne Bayefsky "The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Public International Law" 61 Canadian Bar Review (1983) 265 International Henkin, Louis Ih£L_ _Bill of Rights 1981 Columbia University Press, New York Rodley, Nigel The Treatment of Prisoners Under International_Law 1987 Clarendon University Press, Oxford United Nations Secretariat Working Paper on the Death Penalty U.N. Doc. A/CONF .87/9 United Nations Sixth Annual United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders Report A/CONF .87/14 Rev. 1 1981 Chapter I *****