RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS (agenda item 18) (E/CN.4/1990/39; A/44/539 and 668) E/CN.4/1990/SR.16 page 7 27. Mr. NYAMEKYE (Deputy Director, Centre for Human Rights), introducing agenda items 7 and 8, said that the issues they addressed had been tmder consideration in the United Nations for many years. In 1945, the peoples of the United Nations had declared in the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations their determination "to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom". Economic, social and cultural rights had been laid dovm in articles 23 to 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted by the General Assembly in 1966 along with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The indivisibility and interdependence of the two categories of rights had been reaffirmed in a number of instrvunents. 28. The Commission on Human Rights had begun to consider the realization of economic, social and cultural rights in 1968, and had accorded it high priority since 1975. At its forty-fifth session, in resolution 1989/15, the Commission had decided to add a sub-item to the agenda item, on foreign debt, economic adjustment policies and their effects on the full enjoyment of human rights and, in particular, on implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development, because of the great concern aroused by the problem in recent years. Mr. Bettino Craxi, former Prime Minister of Italy, had been appointed as the Secretary-General's representative to study the most appropriate ways of alleviating the debt burden of certain countries as effectively and swiftly as possible. A meeting of non-governmental organizations had been held in November 1989 on the effects of the debt crisis on the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms. 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the realization of economic, social, and cultural rights, which are closely related to economic development and humanitarian aid. The specific focus on foreign debt, economic adjustment policies, and their effects on human rights suggests a connection to economic development and humanitarian aid.

**Category**
Economic development, Humanitarian aid and relief