distorted, human rights standards had been misrepresented, the sovereignty and dignity of many developing coimtries had been jeopardized and a number of purely humanitarian issues had become highly politicized. If it were truly to play its constructive role in promoting human rights, the Commission must reverse that unhealthy tendency and, in particular, must change the existing procedures for considering matters under agenda item 12 so that the various Member States could inform the Commission of their problems, initiatives and achievements in the human rights field and, if necessary, express their views on problems which existed throughout the world. E/CN.4/1990/SR.50 page 9 38. The Commission should also accord equal importance to civil and political rights on the one hand and economic, social and cultural rights on the other, as the two categories were interdependent, indivisible and complementary. There was a disturbing trend in the work of the Commission that instead of paying equal attention to all the universally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms, some parties gave greater weight to only a fraction of them. In a world where the developing countries were demanding changes in the unfair and irrational international political and economic order, it would be unjust merely to accuse them of alleged human rights violations while ignoring their economic, social and cultural development. 39. Mrs. GONZALEZ MARTINEZ (Mexico) said that several institutions had recently been set up in Mexico to act as mediators between civil society and the State, particularly in respect of human rights matters. Thus, both Oaxaca and Guerrero States, which had large indigenous communities, had recently established bodies to protect the rights of those communities. Aguascalientes state had set up a body to act as an ombudsman, while Mexico City had established an Office of the Social Counsel. 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the importance of promoting human rights, specifically highlighting the need for the Commission to change its procedures to allow for equal consideration of all human rights, including economic, social, and cultural rights. It also mentions specific initiatives in Mexico to protect human rights, particularly in indigenous communities. These points suggest that the category should be related to human rights and social development.

**Category**
Humanitarian aid and relief, Human rights