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"This brief history has been prepared for CEPS on the occasion of the CEPS Conference, Human Rights and Policing, Canberra, April 2013."--Page 2.
Résumé
On 12 May 1963, Australia’s leading scholar of jurisprudence and international law, Professor Julius Stone of the University of Sydney’s Law School, delivered a broadcast on ABC Radio, ‘Australia looks to the world: the police and the people’. His comments were occasioned by his recent attendance at the United Nations Seminar on the Role of the Police in the Protection of Human Rights, held in Canberra. Stone had attended the Seminar as an observer representing the International League for the Rights of Man. Stone asked rhetorically why an international meeting dealing with issues such as police arrests, wiretapping, police interrogation of suspects and universal fingerprinting was related in any way to the United Nations and international affairs. He answered in two ways. At one level there was a need to address gross violations of human rights which had grave international repercussions. From another perspective, in the 20th century the importance of human rights of men and women had been the focus of international laws and treaties. These were the contexts for the 1963 UN Seminar."--Introduction.