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It took the international community more than 45 years to realise the con- cept of a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.' Rapidly, i however, the difficult challenge of this office became apparent when the first , High Commissioner, the Ecuadorian diplomat Jose Ayala Lasso, after less than three years in this post,2 resigned, before the end of his term, in order to return as foreign minister to his country - a function he had already briefly assumed some 20 years earlier. Also for a larger public, this resignation highlighted a sentiment which was already prevalent among human rights experts for some time: The inter- national system for the protection and promotion of human rights had arrived at one of the most critical junctures since its conception some 50 years ago:3 3 This system has grown - albeit rather haphazardly - ever since the adop- tion, on 10 December, 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,4 4 to a complex maze of treaty-based and political monitoring bodies, of United Nations (UN) programmes and activities, and of inter-governmental debate; with the World Conference on Human Rights (Vienna, June 1993), it has finally reached the "critical mass" necessary
Austrian Review of International and European Law Online – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1997
Keywords: Keywords : Human Rights, World Conference on the Human Rights, Recent Developments
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