Israel proposed two steps today to speed drafting of an international treaty on human rights, a problem with which the United Nations has been wrestling for seven years.
Mrs. Zena Harman, Israeli representative, urged in the General Assembly’s Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee a new method of making relevant information on human rights available to governments to facilitate signature of the Covenant on Human Rights and appointment of a small, highly-qualified committee to study UN activities in the universal promotion of human rights, to report to the General Assembly by the Fall of 1955.
“No aspect of the work of the United Nations,” Mrs. Harman said, “is nobler or more pertinent to the ultimate cause of peace than the pursuit of justice and freedom for the individual. This knowledge must sustain us in vigorous action until the goal is achieved.”
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