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This article focuses on matters related to petitioning the United Nations. Since, its establishment over thirty years ago, the Commission on Human Rights has been receiving communications concerning human rights by the thousands every year. Already at its first session, in 1947, the Commission was seized of the question of how it should deal with such communications, both those which were addressed to it and those which, although addressed to other organs of the United Nations, were channeled to the Commission as the most appropriate destination, failing any machinery by the other organs to take them into account within the framework of their functions. The Commission on Human Rights established a subcommittee to consider the question and on the recommendations of the subcommittee, proposed a course of action to the Economic and Social Council. Modifying certain aspects of the Commission's proposal and agreeing with other parts, the Economic and Social Council passed its first resolution governing the handling of communications concerning human rights and requested the Secretary-General to compile before each session of the Commission a confidential list of communications with an indication of their substance. |
