Jewish Groups Ask Human Rights Commission to Set Up Procedure to Handle Complaints

Norman Bentwich, onetime Attorney General of Palestine and an Anglo-Jewish leader, today proposed to the United Nations Human Rights Commission that it establish an appropriate procedure for the submission of claims and complaints by private groups and individuals to international authority concerning human rights violations.

Dr. I. Bienenfeld, of the World Jewish Congress, urged that any such procedure should not be too rigid. He suggested that a Danish-French proposal to establish a special commission for surveying the field of human rights be amended to include on the body representatives of churches and non-governmental bodies, whose special knowledge of human rights problems would be “most valuable.”