A plan providing for redress against violations, of human rights was urged today before the U.N. Commission on Human Rights by Moses Moscowitz, a representative of the Consultative Council of Jewish Organizations. The Council is composed of the American Jewish Committee, the Anglo-Jewish Association and the Alliance Israelite Universelle.
Mr. Moscowitz urged the establishment of permanent central and regional commissions to whom petitions and complaints of violations could be directed. Such bodies, he suggested, should be composed of persons who would bring to bear “conciliation and persuasion” rather than compulsion in carrying out their tasks, and would operate under strict rules of procedure with the power to receive complaints from states, individuals or organizations. He was particularly emphatic in defending the right of individual petition.
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