The Drafting Committee on an International bill of Rights met here today to begin blusprinting a document to outlaw violations of human rights throughout the civilized world.
The committee has before it a draft drawn up by the U.N. secretariat and one prepared by the British delegation. The first is a compilation of rights enunciated in the constitutions of the U.N. member states, plus proposals from individuals, organizations and members of the Human Rights Commission. The second is a comprehensive proposal which stresses that the “safeguards of human rights” have priority over even “the just claims of states.” It also emphasizes means of implementing these rights through recourse to various international tribunals.
The U.S. delegation does not plan to put forward a draft of its own at this time, or in the immediate future, a spokesman told the JTA, since it believes the proposal of the U.N. secretariat will make an adequate working paper, particularly with the companion British draft.
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