The United Nations Human Rights Commission today adopted an article to the proposed Human Rights Convention which would proscribe by law the advocacy of national, racial or religious hostilities which constitute an incitement to hatred or violence.
This is the first time that this principle, debated for many years by various UN bodies, has been adopted by a UN organ composed of responsible governmental representatives. The vote on the measure was 11 for, three against and three abstentions. The USSR, Ukraine and Poland abstained.
The fight for adoption of these principles was carried on by a number of non-governmental organizations. This week-end, Dr. G. M. Reigner of the World Jewish Congress called on the UN unit to adopt this principle, pointing out that millions of Jews were murdered by the Nazis in the absence of such legal protection.
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