The Consultative Council of Jewish Organizations, representing three leading Jewish organizations in the United States, Britain and France, is participating in the seventh session of the U.N. Economic and Social Council which is new being held at Geneva, it was revealed here today.
The Council, comprising the American Jewish Committee, the Anglo-Jewish Association of Britain and the Alliance Israelite Universally of France, will be concerned with a number of points on the U.N. body’s agenda including the International Bill of Rights and a draft convention on genocide. It will also be interested in a proposal to organize an economic mission for the Middle East, migration problems, resettlement and immigration of refugees and DP’s, and the International Refugee Organization’s proposal for an international convention on persons missing as a result of persecutions during the war and of the war itself.
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