ABSTRACT
The Afro-Asian members who initiated the Commission's protection activities, also reoriented the standard-setting and promotional programs after 1967. In the decade following World War II, The International Law Commission, the General Assembly, and legal scholars gave serious consideration to establishing a world criminal court as well as to codifying an international criminal code. After 1967 when the enlarged Commission shifted priorities, members and nongovernmental officials proposed comparable legal remedies for human rights violations in Southern Africa. Sponsors presented a draft convention embodying the criminal law approach to the Third Committee in 1971. After referral to the Commission for comment, the Third Committee drafted a final text. The General Assembly adopted the International Convention of the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in November 1973. Third World efforts to prevent and punish apartheid set a precedent for Western activists desiring stronger human rights norms against torture.
