Drafting History

1. Drafting History - Introduction
2. Overview of Process and Key Documents
3. Accounts of Drafting Process
4. First Session of the Human Rights Commission
5. First Session of the Drafting Committee
6. Second Session of the Human Rights Commission
7. Second Session of the Drafting Committee
8. Third Session of the Human Rights Committee
9. Third Committee of the General Assembly
10. Plenary Session of the Third General Assembly Session
11. Reference

1. See Evans, Tony, US Hegemony and the Project of Human Rights (1996).

2. See note 1.

3. Korey, William, NGO’s and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “A Curious Grapevine” (1998).

4. Waltz, Susan, “Universalizing Human Rights: The Role of Small States in the Construction of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, 23 Human Rights Quarterly 44-72 (2001).

5. Humphrey, John P., Human Rights and the United Nations: A Great Adventure (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Transnational, 1984) at 29.

6. Ibid 32.

7. Cassin, René, La Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme de 1948, Paris, Institut de France, Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, 1958. This essay was reprinted in Cassin, René, La Pensée et l'action (Paris, Lalou, 1972). This citation is from that reprint at 108.

8. E/CN.4/AC.4/1/6/Add.1/p.1.

9. Ibid 2.

10. Ibid 7.

11. Cassin, ‘Historique de la Déclaration’, in La Pensée et l’ Action, at 116-7, cited by MORSINK at 26.

12. As quoted by Hersch Lauterpacht in his February Report of the 1948 Brussels Conference of the International Law Association entitled “Human Rights, the Charter of the United Nations and the International Bill of the Rights of Man.” (E/CN.4/89/p.7) cited by MORSINK at 26.

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