Social and Cultural Rights At its 30th plenary meeting, on 19 October 2016, the General Assembly decided, without setting a precedent, to invite Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; Mr. Fabián Omar Salvioli, Chair of the Human Rights Committee; and Mr. Waleed Sadi, Chair of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, to make a statement at the commemorative meeting of the Assembly on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.