ABSTRACT
Increasingly concerned by the complexity of human rights issues in different parts of the world, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (CHR) decided to establish in 1947 a Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, composed of 26 independent human rights experts. Its mandate was ‘to undertake studies, particularly in the light of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and to make recommendations to the Commission concerning the prevention of discrimination of any kind relating to human rights and fundamental freedoms and the protection of racial, national, religious and linguistic minorities’ (OHCHR 2006).
