1. Mr. EIDE recalled the Sub-Commission's mandate as given in Commisson resolution 8 (XXIII), and said that, as experts, the members should try to identify trends and problem areas. That was what he proposed to do. 2. The main problem was not always with the Government. Governments were sometimes faced with situations in which social or ethnic groups were involved in violent confrontation and a Government seeking to protect human rights might find itself in a very difficult situation. In other situations, Governments might be split between those who sought peaceful, democratic and pluralistic solutions, with tolerance and respect for human rights, and those who insisted on repressive and violent measures in order to maintain a socially unjust economic order or ethnic dominance or an intolerant system based on narrow ideological or religious convictions. In other cases Governments rode high waves of nationalist passion giving rise to expansionism, or authoritarian rulers clung to power when faced with broad popular demands to step down. 3. It was sometimes alleged that human rights were a Western or European product imposed on the rest of the world. That was an incorrect perception. In fact, human rights had been developed as a kind of protective platform against barbarism, authoritarian rule, misgovernment and totalitarian reg1mes. It should never be assumed that the West -or Europe -had always been perfect and would remain so: that would fly in the face of past and present reality. 4. He had identified a number of different kinds of situation which should give rise to different kinds of response. At one extreme there was withdrawal: the total rejection of human rights values. The most serious example of that, in his opinion, was the situation in Cambodia, where a group of people had committed what he would call the second Holocaust -the massive 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the concept of human rights and the challenges faced by governments in protecting them. The speaker is highlighting the complexities of human rights issues, including the involvement of social or ethnic groups, government splits, nationalist passion, and authoritarian rule. The text does not seem to be related to economic development, natural resources, agriculture, industry, transport, international trade, health, education, employment, or humanitarian aid. Instead, it seems to be focused on the human aspect of rights and the challenges of protecting them.

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