ABSTRACT
The new African and Asian representatives joining the Commission in 1967 came determined to combat racial discrimination and to advance the right of self-determination. Commission Resolution 8 (XXIII) of 1967 initiated the most significant change. The Resolution 1503 confidential procedure was fashioned during four years of struggle over whether to expand or curtail the Commission's new power to study violations. After retiring from his position as Director of the Division of Human Rights, John Humphrey worked for stronger implementation measures as a Sub-Commission expert from Canada. Commission Resolution 8 (XXIII) and Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Resolution 1235 of 1967 ended the no-power doctrine and created the possibility for significant enforcement initiatives. The Tanzanian representative Waldron-Ramsey initiated a major review by ECOSOC in response to press accounts of CIA support for Western organizations and as a reaction to the considerable geographic imbalance of nongovernmental organization representation.
