The 41st Session of The UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities

Authors

Robin M. Maher, George Washington University Law SchoolFollow
David Weissbrodt, University of Minnesota Law SchoolFollow

Publication

Human Rights Quarterly

Volume

12

Page

290

Year

1990

Abstract

The forty-first session ofthe Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (hereinafter the Sub-Commission) met in August 1989 to address a number of human rights situations that had come to worldwide attention since 1988. The session followed the bloody suppres- sion of demonstrations in the People's Republic of China, a rash of bombings and political assassinations in Colombia, and the use of chemical weapons against unarmed civilians in Iraq. Moreover, unusual political pressures from a variety of sources played an important role. As the Sub-Commission de- bated its first resolution on a country which holds a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, 2 members of the Sub-Commission faced a challenge to maintain their independence and overcome political pressures that sur- rounded these controversial issues.

Comments

Copyright © 1990 The Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in Human Rights Quarterly Journal, 12:2 (1990), 290-327. Reprinted with permission by The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Recommended Citation

Robin M. Maher and David Weissbrodt, The 41st Session of The UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, 12 Hum. Rts. Q. 290 (1990), available at https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/231.