Human rights
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
"An International Bill of the Rights of Man": copies of correspondence, The majority of the copies are of material dating from 1942-59.
Commission on Human Rights, 1950-01
United Nations Economic and Social Council paper from the sixth session of the Commission, giving comments from the Governments of Israel on the draft international covenant on human rights and measures of implementation.
Copy of The Listener with the text of HL's broadcast for the BBC Third Programme, "Towards an International Bill of Rights", 1949-11
Papers from HL's professional legal career, including articles, memoranda, Opinions, papers for the British legal team at the Nuremberg Trials, and papers relating to cases before the Permanent Court of International Justice, and after the war, its successor the International Court of Justice.
Correspondence, 1943-03
Correspondence, 1943-05, 2005
Correspondence, 1943-06, 2005
Correspondence, 1943-07
Correspondence, 1952, 1960 - 1971
Correspondence, 1914 - 2002
This series mainly comprises reference requests for employment and nominations for awards, including the Nobel Prize. Also included are off-prints of scientific and philosophical papers. The material relating to groups and organisations has been arranged into a separate series.
Diary and notebook of tour to Africa, 1962-03 - 1962-11
Including: Stevens' observations on colonial policy and administration during his tour of Luanda, Leopoldville, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Salisbury, Khartoum, Cairo and Tripoli; press cuttings regarding peace settlement in Congo and Angola; Stevens' view of apartheid; and a Foreign Office letter regarding the negative reaction to Stevens' potential appointment as Ambassador to South Africa.
Drafts of the International Bill of the Rights of Man, 1944
European Commission speeches, 2000-01 - 2000-10
Oral questions by MEPs at the European Parliament (EP) Strasbourg, and NK’s responses. Subjects include: fraud allegations against Côte d'Ivoire; appointments to the Commission and staff regulations; the inspection of fishing vessels in international waters by Canadian inspectors; human rights violations in Tibet and China.
European Commission speeches, 2002-06 - 2002-12
Oral questions by MEPs at the European Parliament (EP) Strasbourg, and NK’s responses. Subjects include: illegal immigration to the European Union from Morocco; costs of the Berlaymont Building [Commission headquarters, Brussels, Belgium]; dialogue with Iran over human rights; the creation of an International Criminal Court.
European Commission speeches, 2003-05 - 2003-11
HL Biography: "HL various", 1937 - 1950, 2002 - 2009
“HL [Biography]: post-publication correspondence and reviews”, 2004 - 2012
Letters and emails of congratulation, comments and reviews.
Also includes some additional material: a reprint of "Hersch Lauterpacht and the Genesis of the Age of Human Rights" by Professor Brian Simpson, 2004; a draft article by Ana Filipa Vrdoljak, "Human Rights and Genocide: The work of Lauterpacht and Lemkin in modern international law", 2008.
“HL Regular Human Rights articles and some lectures”, 1939 - 1952
Human rights cases, 1984-05 - 1986-07
Correspondence on human rights cases, particularly involving the Soviet Union.
Human rights cases: correspondence on cases involving the Soviet Union, 1984-01 - 1987-02
Subjects include: Central America; relations with the Soviet Union, including NK's involvement in various human rights cases; the Middle East; sanctions against South Africa; meetings with African leaders; Eastern Europe.
International League for Human Rights, 1983-12 - 1986-03
Reports, bulletins and press-cuttings from the league, particularly relating to Chile.
Meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, 1984-12
Briefing and arrangements for and notes on NK’s meeting with Gorbachev during his visit to London as leader of the Parliamentary Delegation from the Soviet Union. Subjects include the demilitarisation of space, reductions in strategic and nuclear weapons and human rights. Also includes press briefing and transcript of a Weekend World television broadcast on the visit.
Meetings with overseas leaders, 1983-11 - 1992-02
Memorandum submitted by Uruguay to the United Nations on establishing an Attorney-General for human rights, 1951-12
Papers from HL's professional legal career, including articles, memoranda, Opinions, papers for the British legal team at the Nuremberg Trials, and papers relating to cases before the Permanent Court of International Justice, and after the war, its successor the International Court of Justice.
Papers relating to human rights and trade union 'closed shop' cases, December 1979-February 1981, 1979-12 - 1981-02
Part 1, 1979: includes briefing note for MT from Ian Gow MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary), "European convention on human rights", 24 December 1979
Part 2, 1980
Part 3, 1981
Papers relating to the Convention of Human Rights, 1949-06 - 1949-07
The Movement was founded by the International Committee of the Movements for European Unity, following the Congress of Europe at the Hague in 1948