'whi:].st dealing' wlth .this questl.on al'though certain specific re fugee situations had glven tise to issues Iike state responslbj.Iity vhen discusEed in the Special Polltieal coffinlt'.ee. Cn a rel-ated subject, 4 conve ntion on tlre Status of Stateless Persons was adopted durl.ng. ttre fourttr Eession in 1949 and a draft Protocol to tlre Corwention wes adopted at the seventtr session in fgsZ. the. questlon of forrm:lation of a Declaratlon of Asylum was debated slnce the slxteenth session and ttre Declaratlon was' f3.na11y adopted ir: 196? at tlre tt enty-second sesElcn of the General Assembly. progress was also achieved on the i.sSue of Ell.minatlon of Raclal, Prejudlce and Religlous Intolerance. A Declaration was adopted at the eighteenth se-sslon inA/ 40 /726 English Page 54 1963 on Elimination of AI1 gorms of RaciaL Dlscrimination and a Convention was adopted on the subject at the twentieth sesslon in 1965.. Ttre irnplenrentation of the Convention had been monltored and debated at tlre subse- guent sesslons-. A draft Convention on Sglhgll was also adopted at the t!{e nty-e l ghttr sesslon in 1973. Sone of the other matters where decl.aratlons were forrm.rLateC cr covenants adoFted j.ncluded the Declaratj.on on the Elinination of Discrimlnatj.on agalnst Wcmen ( t*enty-second sessicn in 196?) as also a Conventsi.on on Marriage ( seventeenth session in 1962) and the Conventj.on on Nationality of Married Women wh ich was opened for s.;gnattrre at the eleventh session in 1956. The qr:es-,ion of, inplement-ation of the Covenant on Economic, Social and CuIh:raI Rj.ghts as.also the Covenant on. CLvll andPoliticaj. Rights has also been debated since the tr"re nty- second session in 1957. lhe Th.lrd Comnittee has progressively dealt lrith a numbe r of other matters which have relevance to ob_ servance of human rights such as Crime prevention, Prohlbitj.on of degrrading punlshment and torture and