1. Parts of this chapter have been published before, in Peter R. Baehr and Leon Gordenker, The United Nations in the 1990s, London: Macmillan, 2nd edn, 1994.
2. A major study on the work of the Commission is Howard Tolley Jr., The UN Commission on Human Rights, Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1987.
3. Philip Alston, ‘The Commission on Human Rights’, in Philip Alston (ed.), The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, pp. 126–210.
4. Cf. Jack Donnelly, ‘Human Rights at the United Nations 1955–1985: The Question of Bias’, International Studies Quarterly vol. 32 (1988), pp. 275–303.
5. See D. McGoldrick, The Human Rights Committee: Its Role in the Development of the International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991