The U.N. Social Committee today approved Israel’s proposal asking the Human Rights Commission to consider writing into the covenant on human rights a broadened formula for implementing the covenant.
The Israel proposal, adopted as an amendment to a Committee resolution returning the covenant to the Commission for re-drafting, would allow for complaints of violations of the covenant to be initiated by specified non-governmental organizations and by the Human Rights Committee established under the convenant.
The Committee also approved a Uruguayan amendment asking the Human Rights Commission to consider also the formula originally proposed by the Consultative Council of Jewish Organizations under which a U.N. Attorney-General or a High Commissioner for Human Rights would be named to bring before the Human Rights Commission complaints of violations made by individuals or groups.
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