The 18-member United Nations Commission on Human Rights today started discussion on the drafting of an international covenant on human rights and measures of implementation. The Commission, which will be in session for about two months, will attempt to put the finishing touches to the much-discussed draft covenants on human rights during its deliberations.
The draft covenants–one containing civil and political rights, and the other economic, social and cultural rights–have been debated repeatedly in the Commission, the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly for more than five years. They are designed as international pacts which will put legal obligations on states to safeguard and enforce the principles proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948 by the Assembly.
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