ABSTRACT
Richard J. Goldstone is a justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. From 15 August 1994 to September 1996 he served as chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Among his many distinguished accomplishments are the 1998 Chairpersonship of a high level group of international experts that met in Spain and drafted a Declaration of Human Duties and Responsibilities for the Director General of UNESCO. There have been trials of Nazi officials and collaborators in a number of European countries. This feature of the Holocaust was probably unique until the establishment of the United Nations ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. China abstained in the vote on the Rwanda Tribunal but only in sympathy for the Government of Rwanda, which had changed its mind on the establishment after initially having requested it.
