La Cour internationale de justice et la problématique des droits de l'homme

2- Techniques of investigation

The techniques of investigation return in the practical conditions of collection of information. We chose in the development of this work with two techniques of research to knowing : the information retrieval and maintenance.

· The information retrieval

The information retrieval consists in excavating in the works and various publications like the reviews or the newspapers : texts of law, elements of doctrines and jurisprudence which make it possible to encircle and to tame the object of a study. This type of research is realizable in the libraries and the research and studies centers. We chose this technique, because it tallies perfectly with the object of our study. It is simply a question for us of examining the reasoning and the contribution of the Court when this one is confronted with the problems of the humans right. Thus, for better encircling the object of this study, our attention will be focused on the texts, the doctrines and the decisions of the Court as regards the humans right. The information retrieval proceeded in the libraries of the Catholic Institute of Yaounde and the APDHAC^39(*), which together have about ten thousand works in their data bases.

· Maintenance

The various talks concerned the lawyers in a general way, and a particular way, the teachers and researchers in international law. It is generally acts of individual talks semi-directing lasting on average an hour. The choice of semi-directing maintenance is explained by the fact why it is maintenance procedures which are neither entirely open, nor channeled by a great number of precise questions. It made it possible to let come inquired so that this one can speak openly, in the words which it wishes and in the order which is appropriate to him. We simply endeavoured to center maintenance on the objectives of research each time our person interviewed deviated some, in order to ask him questions to which it did not manage to answer the most suitable moment, and in a way as natural as possible. It was sometimes necessary to turn over to see the people interviewed for a further information.

* ³⁹ Association for the promotion of the Humans right in Africa Centrale whose seat is in Yaounde and who is located in the buildings of the Catholic University of Africa Centrale (campus of Ekounou).