The Concept and Present Status of the International Protection of Human Rights: Forty Years after the Universal Declaration

John P. Humphrey, the first Director of the Human Rights Division of the United Nations, in his preface to The Concept and Present Status of the International Protection of Human Rights - Forty Years after the Universal Declaration, observes that the question of the international protection of human rights has received far too little attention from scholars, statesmen, diplomats and human rights activists . There has so far been no attempt ... to provide a comprehensive account of the concept of protection within the international law of human rights. In his new book, Dr. B.G. Ramcharan, the distinguished lawyer-adviser in the office of the Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, confronts this very issue