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A United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: The Birth of an Initiative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

John Humphrey*
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Facuîty of Law, McGill University
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“The Decline and Fall of an Initiative” was the title Dean Mao donald gave to the last of his two articles on the proposal to create an office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and it suggests that he intended to write an obituary. Since I happened to be present at the creation of the proposal, I can add a few details.

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Copyright © The Canadian Council on International Law / Conseil Canadien de Droit International, representing the Board of Editors, Canadian Yearbook of International Law / Comité de Rédaction, Annuaire Canadien de Droit International 1974

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References

1 See Macdonald, , “A United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: The Decline and Fall of an Initiative,” 10 Canadian Yearbook of International Law 40 (1979).Google Scholar For the first of the two articles, see Macdonald, , “The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,” 5 Canadian Yearbook of International Law 84 (1967).Google Scholar

2 See his preface to a book by Clark, Roger S., A United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (The Hague, 1972).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Moskowitz, Moses, Human Rights and World Order: The Struggle for Human Rights in the United Nations 137–51. (1958).Google Scholar

4 ECOSOC Resolution 642 B (XXVII) of August 1, 1956.