Jewish Congress Appeals to U. N. for Action on Religious Intolerance

Although 16 years have elapsed since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted, millions of people in states that are UN members continue to be deprived of the rights listed in the Declaration, the World Jewish Congress charged today, on the 16th anniversary of the Declaration.

The WJC with affiliated communities in 64 lands, called upon the current U. N. General Assembly to expedite a Declaration on Religious Intolerance. The General Assembly in 1962 asked that a draft declaration be prepared for action at its 1963 session; “We are at the end of 1964, and this text has not yet been drafted,” Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig, director of the WJC Department of International Affairs, said in a statement to the U.N.