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_{1. The original version of this paper was
published in Nordic Journal of international Law, vol. 56,
no. 4 (1987), as "Consideration of the Relationship between
Scientific and Technological Developments and Human Rights in the
United Nations Human Rights Fora."}

_{2. Adopted at the 50th meeting, on 10
March 1986, without a vote. The text of the resolution appears in
document E/1986/22.}

_{3. E/CN.4/1986/SR.50, pare. 63.}

_{4. E/CN.4/19861SR.21, pares. 18-22.}

_{5. E/CN.4/1986/SR.22, pares. 6-7.}

_{6. E/ 1986/22.}

_{7. Project document dated 20 November
1986, UNU.}

_{8. Project document (note 7 above),
"2. Objective."}

_{9. E/CN.4/1986/28.}

_{10. Horst Keilau, "Scientific and
Technological Progress and Humanism," in Daniel Premont et
al, eds., Essays on the Concept of a "Right to Life"
in Memory of Yougindra Khushalani (Bruyland, Brussels, 1987).}

_{11. The International Conference on Human
Rights was held in Tehran, Iran, from 22 April to 13 May 1968 in
connection with the observance of the International Year for
Human Rights, which marked the twentieth anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The purposes of the
conference were to review the progress made in the field of human
rights since the adoption of the Declaration, to evaluate the
effectiveness of the methods used by the United Nations in the
human rights field, and to formulate and prepare a programme of
further measures to be taken subsequent to the celebration of the
anniversary. The governments of 84 states were represented at the
conference, which adopted the Proclamation of Tehran and 29
resolutions. These resolutions, and the general principles set
out in the Proclamation, gave new directions to a great deal of
the subsequent work of the United Nations in the field of human
rights. See United Nations, Final Act of the International
Conference of Human Rights (UN Sales no. E.68.XIV.2).}

_{12. EN/CN.4/1023 and Add 1-3 and Add
3/Corr 1 and 2 and Add 4-6.}

_{13. For a summary of the discussion on the
report, see E/4949, pares. 175-192; E/CN.4/ SR 11191127.}

_{14. A/9937, para. 11.}

_{15. A/10330.}

_{16. E/CN.4/1172 and Corr 1 and Add 1-3.}

_{17. E/CN.4/1199 and Add 1.}

_{18. E/CN.4/1196.}

_{19. E/CN.4/1234.}

_{20. E/CN.4/1235.}

_{21. E/CN.4/1236.}

_{22. See below.}

_{23. E/CN.4/Sub.2/474.}

_{24. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1982/16.}

_{25. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1982/17.}

_{26. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1982/SR.36 and
E/CN.4/1982/4, chap. 1, section A, draft resolution IX.}

_{27. Sub-Commission decision 1985/112. See
E/CN.4/1986/5, paras. 317-323.}

_{28. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1987/32.}

_{29. E/CN.4/Sub.2/490.}

_{30. E/CN.4/1512, paras. 205-209.}

_{31. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1983118.}

_{32. Sub-Commission resolution 1984/12.}

_{33. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1985/21.}

_{34. Sub-Commission resolution 1985/14.}

_{35. The Commission had made such a request
in 1981 and 1982 in resolutions 38 (XXXVII) of 12 March 1981 and
1982/4 of 9 February 1982.}

_{36. E/CN.4/1986/5, pares. 307-312.}

_{37. United Nations, Human Rights and
Scientific and Technological Developments, pp. 91-92
(DPI/726-41527-1982-DM).}

_{38. E/CN.4/1986/SR.21, pares. 19-20.}

_{39. E/CN.4/1986/28,}

_{40. For example, E/CN.4/1986/SR.21, pares.
15, 16, 21, and 22.}

_{41. E/CN.4/1512, pare. 206.}

_{42. E/CN.4/1142.}

_{43. J.M. Ziman, P. Sieghard, and J.
Humphrey, The World of Science and The Rule of Law (Oxford
University Press, 1986).}

_{44. E/CN.4/1199 of 2 February 1974, para.
4.}

_{45. Ziman et al. (note 43 above), p. 6.}

_{46. Ziman et al. (note 43 above), p. 6.}

_{47. Intervention at 1983 Commission on
Human Rights.}

_{48. Reply of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics of 13 February 1985, in E/CN.4/ 1986/28.}

_{49. Ziman et al. (note 43 above).}

_{50. K. Tomasevski, "Hazardous
Exports: Access to Information Necessary for
Selfprotection," paper prepared for the 10th University of
Windsor Symposium on Law and Development Combating Process of
Rural Impoverishment: Law as an Obstacle and a Resource for
Victims, 5-8 November 1986, p. 1.}

_{51. See also United Nations Action in
the Field of Human Rights, p. 256 (ST/HR/Rev.2), (UN Sales
no. E.83XIV.2).}

_{52. A non-governmental organization in
consultative status with the Economic and Social Council
(category II).}

_{53. E/CN.4/1986/SR.21.}

_{54. J Pérez de Cuellar, Report of the
Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization (1985), p.
17.}

_{55. P. Alston, "International Law and
the Human Right to Food," in P. Alston and K. Tomasevski,
eds., The Right to Food (Nijhoff, The Hague, 1984), p. 12.}

_{56. Regarding the question of law and
human rights in the wake of technology, see C.G. Weeramantry, The
Slumbering Sentinels (Penguin Books, 1983).}

_{57. Theo van Boven, "Book Review on
Alston and Tomasevski, The Right to Food," Netherlands
International Law Review, vol. 3, no. 1 (1986).}

_{58. E/CN.4/1987/11.}

_{59. P. Jambrek, "Participation as a
Human Right and as a Means for Exercise of Human Rights"
(Paris, 1982), p. I (Unesco doe. SS-82/WS/54).}

_{60. Jambrek (note 59 above).}

_{61. Project document (note 7 above).}

_{62. See note 44 above.}

_{63. United Nations (note 37 above).}

_{64. E/CN.4/1984/SR.28, pare. 11.}

_{65. E/CN.4/1986/40 and E/CN.4/1987/38.}

_{66. Preliminary Report on the Project on
Human Rights and Scientific and Technological Development was
submitted by the United Nations University to the Commission on
Human Rights at its forty-fourth session, E/CN.4/1987/48.
Subsequently, the Commission adopted resolution 1988/59, in which
it invited the United Nations University, in co-operation with
other academic and research institutions, to continue to study
both the positive and the negative impact of scientific and
technological developments on human rights and fundamental
freedoms and expressed the hope that the United Nations
University would inform the Commission at its forty-sixth session
of the results of its study on the question.}

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