Philip Alston (1979), 'The United Nations' Specialized Agencies and Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights', Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 18, pp. 79—118.

Nations but is a member of any specialized agency. Covenant, supra note 1, art. 26(1).

15. See notes 53-64 and accompanying text infra. 16. See material on evolution of covenants, supra note 1. 17. This was a prime consideration when establishment of a new body to implement

the Covenant was discussed. It was argued before the Commission on Human Rights in 1951 "that a special committee, along the lines of the Human Rights Committee, might involve itself in technical questions in which it would have only limited expertise and might attempt to fix standards of its own in the specialized fields that were the concern of the agencies." Commission on Human Rights, Report of the Seventh Sess., 13 U.N. ESCOR, Supp. (No.9) 87, U.N. Doc. E/1992 or E/CN.4/690 (1951). See also notes 56, 62 and accompanying text infra.