In 1966, almost twenty years after the United Nations' human rights process began, the UN General Assembly adopted two legally binding human rights covenants – the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). By then, successful anticolonial struggles had almost doubled the UN's membership.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 227