Justice
United Kingdom
Justice, the British section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) started in the late 1950s as a response to the arrest of people in South Africa in 1956 which led to the Treason Trial. It sent observers to the trial. It sees itself as an expert, independent body rather than a pressure group and its main aim is to observe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by securing fair trials, especially political trials of opponents of apartheid.
The Brynmor Jones Library at Hull University holds the archives of the organisation covering the period 1950-1991.
