Summary
Secretary-general of the International Commission of Jurists before Niall MacDermot, under whose leadership its first Middle East report was published in 1969 (Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, PDF p.47).
Details
- He had fought against the British for Irish independence, been a politically committed lawyer and then a minister of foreign affairs in Ireland, and helped Amnesty International get started; he was awarded both the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974 and the Lenin Prize for Peace among Nations in 1977 (PDF p.47).
- In the ICJ’s 1966 The Rule of Law and Human Rights: Principles and Definitions he referred to the “new dynamic concept of the rule of law” developed mainly in the Global South (PDF p.26).
- After the 1967 CIA-funding revelations he “denounced the CIA and asserted that he had no information about covert funding through conduit foundations”, and fought the reputational damage with Ford Foundation funding (PDF p.49).
Related pages
Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, International Commission of Jurists