The 41st Session of the UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities 12 Human Rights Quarterly 1990

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12 Hum. Rts. Q. 290 (1990)
The 41st Session of the UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities

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The 41st Session of The UN
Sub-Commission on Prevention
of Discrimination and Protection
of Minorities
Robin M. Maher and David Weissbrodt*
The forty-first session of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination
and Protection of Minorities (hereinafter the Sub-Commission) met in August
* The authors wish to thank Reed Brody and the International Commission of Jurists for
permission to use information contained in United Nations Sub-Commission on the Pre-
vention of Discrimination and the Protection of Minorities (1989), 43 ICJ Review 19
(1989), particularly in regard to the section of this article dealing with country resolutions.
Professor Weissbrodt also wishes to thank Sonia Rosen for her contribution to the section
of the article concerning the Working Group on Slavery.
1. The United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of
Minorities was established by the Economic and Social Council (hereinafter ECOSOC)
in 1947 as a subsidiary body of the Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter the
Commission). The Sub-Commission is composed of twenty-six members elected by the
Commission to staggered four year terms. It meets annually in Geneva, generally during
the month of August, to undertake studies and makes recommendations to the Commission
on Human Rights on a wide range of human rights topics. For analyses of the work of
the Sub-Commission see generally United Nations Sub-Commission on the Prevention
of Discrimination and the Protection of Minorities (1989), 43 ICJ Review 19 (1989); van
Boven, -The United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Pro-
tection of Minorities, 7 Netherlands Q. Hum. Rts. 465 (1989); Brennan, Brody & Weiss-
brodt, The 40th Session of the UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and
Protection of Minorities, 11 Hum. Rts. Q. 295 (1989); Rosen & Weissbrodt, The 39th
Session of the UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of
Minorities, 10 Hum. Rts. Q. 487 (1988); H. Tolley, The U.N. Commission on Human
Rights 163-86(1987); Garber & O'Connor, The 1984 U.N. Sub-Commission on Prevention
of Discrimination and the Protection of Minorities, 79 AJIL 168 (1985); Hantke, The 1982
Session of the U.N. Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of
Minorities: Current Developments, 77 AJIL 651 (1983); Haver, The United Nations Sub-
Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and the Protection of Minorities, 21 Colum.
J. Transnat'l. L.103 (1982); Gardeniers, Hannum & Kruger, The U.N. Sub-Commission
on Prevention of Discrimination and the Protection of Minorities: Recent Developments,
Human Rights Quarterly 12 (1990) 290-327 a 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press