made of it as it had never been strengthened due to the pressure from some States which were afraid that the United Nations might look into their htmian rights situation and were now the prime losers from the shortcomings and loopholes in the system. 59. The overloaded agenda, or to be more precise, the short time available to the Commission to deal properly with the various items before it and to consider draft resolutions which might command a broad consensus and also promote favourable developments, was doubtless the most serious problem. Belgium thus took the view that the agenda should be reduced in some way or other. Rationalizing it in a logical manner, without attempting to impose any specific policy, would be a first step in the right direction. Another solution would be to set up an intersessional mechanism to consider some of the items on the agenda or, at the least, to prepare proposals to optimize the use made of the time available. The Commission had, for example, wasted a great deal of time in setting up an informal working group on item 11 of the agenda, with the result that it had little time left to formulate acceptable proposals even although discussions in the smaller group had suggested that it might be possible to do so. 60. There had been various proposals aimed at improving the Commission's effectiveness. Everybody agreed that politicization of any kind must be avoided and that there should be no selectivity. The opinion of his delegation was that strengthening the system of thematic studies, which concentrated attention not on a particular country but on a particular type of human rights violation, would be a means of achieving that goal. Results would be obtained by bolstering the independence of the Rapporteurs 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the workings of the United Nations Commission, focusing on the challenges it faces in dealing with its agenda and promoting human rights. It does not seem to be related to economic development, natural resources, agriculture, forestry, fishing, industry, transport, communication, international trade, employment, humanitarian aid, or culture. The text does mention science, but only in the context of thematic studies and the independence of Rapporteurs.

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