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56 ICJ Newsl. 1 (1994)

handle is hein.icj/icjnews0056 and id is 1 raw text is: NO~~~ 56Jnay19 ICJ Is Awarded the UN Human Rights Prize UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali presents the award to ICJ Secretary-General Adama Dieng at a ceremony at the UN Headquarters, New York, on 10 December 1993. Photo UN Media Division/DPI 1TI he International Commission of .TJurists is honoured by the rec- ognition given to its work said ICJ Secretary-General, Adama Dieng, after receiving the United Nations Human Rights Prize at a ceremony which took place in New York on 10 December 1993, the International Human Rights Day. This prestigious prize is awarded every five years in recognition of out- standing achievements in the promo- tion and protection of civil and political rights or economic social and cultural rights. Past individual and institutional re- cipients of the Prize include U Thant, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Ren6 Cassin, the International Com- mittee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Amnesty International. Continued on Page 4 ICJ Workshop in Ethiopia Places African Court of Human Rights on the Agenda T he fifth ICJ Workshop on NGO Par- ticipation in the Work of the Afri- can Commission on Human and Peo- ples' Rights (ACHPR), organized by the ICJ in collaboration with the Banjul- based ACHPR, took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 28-30 November 1993. This meeting preceded the 14th Ordinary Session of the ACHPR. The ICJ Workshop was the fifth in a series of similar meetings held to pro- mote and invigorate the ongoing dia- logue between NGOs and the African Commission, with a view to support- ing the work of the ACHPR. Two major issues figured promi- nently on the agenda of the Workshop. The first concerned the development of viable NGO strategies for promoting and protecting human rights in Africa and the second concerned discussions on a draft protocol for the establish- ment of an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. Two Working Groups were established in order to further discussions on the two differ- ent topics simultaneously. The meeting was opened by the Hon. Mahteme Solomon, the Ethiopian Minister of Justice, who, whilst recog- nizing the importance of the Workshop and of the role of NGOs in promoting and protecting human rights in Africa, called on NGOs to better provide as- sistance to governments rather than criticize their human rights record. The OAU Secretary-General, Dr Salim A. Salim, emphasized the need for a ICJ NEWSLETTER No 56/1994 partnership between governments and NGOs in the field of human rights. The Under-Secretary General of the UN and Executive Secretary of the UN Eco- nomic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Dr Layashi Yaker, stated that meaning- ful development in Africa required open societies that respect human rights, the Rule of Law and popular participation. NGO Strategies Discussed The first Working Group dealt with questions such as the elaboration of NGO strategies for working with each Continued on Page 2 I

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