Every effort should be made by the United Nations, during International Cooperation Year–1965–to encourage member nations to ratify the UN conventions on human rights, B’nai B’rith said today.
Label A. Katz, B’nai B’rith president, said that international law would be “enhanced” if the UN “could hasten” the process of ratification by focusing attention on 15 international documents drafted and approved by the UN, which still lack approval by a substantial number of member states. These include the Genocide Convention, drafted in 1948, and conventions concerned with refugees and stateless persons, the political and national rights of women and the abolition of slavery and slave trading.
The proposal was made in a letter to Ambassador Ralph Enckel of Finland, chairman of the Preparatory Committee for International Cooperation Year, which invited recommendations for the observance from non-governmental organizations with consultative status at the UN. Mr. Katz also proposed that, during 1965, the UN provide technical and legal assistance which would encourage governments to consider ratification.
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