1. See M. Maneli, Juridical Positivism and Human Rights, New York 1981.
2. For the context and details of this statement, see P. Alston, U.S. Ratification of the Convenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Need for an Entirely New Strategy, AJIL 84, 1990, pp. 365–393, at 387.
3. On the economic, social and cultural rights in the Universal Declaration, see G. Alfredsson, A. Eide, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A common Standard of Achievement., The Hague et al. 1999, Art. 22–27. On the further development of those rights, see A. Eide, C. Krause, A. Rosas (eds.), Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. A Textbook, Dordrecht 1995.
4. UN Commission on Human Rights, Resolution 1998/7, adopted on 3 April 1998.
5. The most comprehensive examination of the human rights bodies of the United Nations is found in: P. Alston (ed.), The United Nations and Human Rights. A Critical Appraisal, Oxford 1992.