Representatives of American, British and French organizations, speaking in behalf of the Consultative Council of Jewish Organizations, today urged the U.N. Human Rights Commission to include in the International Bill of Rights a provision obliging the signatory nations to cooperate to facilitate immigration and resettlement of persons forced to leave their native lands because of ##tion.They also asked for expansion of the functions allotted to international organizations granted consultative status by the Commission and the establishment of an International Court of Human Rights to try violations of the Bill of Rights. The representatives of the Consultative Council included Milton Winn, member of the ## affairs commission of the American Jewish Committee, Prof. M.R. Mantoux of the alliance Israelite Universelle, and Norman Bentwich, representing the Anglo-Jewish Association. A.L. Easterman and Dr. Gerhard Riegner of the World Jewish Congress al##essed working groups of the Commission.
Winn stressed the importance of eliminating the category of stateless persons, pointing out that it involves a denial of human rights. He also urged the working ##drafting a human rights convention to confer nationality on such persons and the #ablish machinery providing for their naturalization. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who presided at the group’s meeting, said she will recommend that such a provision be ##luded in the draft convention.Bentwich urged that private international organizations be granted the right to ##mine and recommend petitions from individuals and have the right to appear for ## Dr. Riegner made the same point, with the proviso that consultative agencies ##such a right only in cases involving states which have signed the proposed Bill of ##ghts. He also advocated that the Commission recommend machinery for enforcing the human rights sections of peace treaties and other international documents. The ## drafting the convention agreed to this proposal.
Easterman proposed that the Bill of Rights guarantee the right of asylum to ##ersons fleeing persecution, except those fighting against the principles of the ##Charter. Several delegates voiced approval of the suggestion.
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