Representatives of two Jewish organizations today appeared before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and emphasized the necessity for setting up machinery providing for the right of petition by individuals and groups in cases where human rights are violated.
Moses Moskowitz, who represented the Coordinating Council of Jewish Organizations, requested the establishment of an office of High Commissioner, or U.N. Attorney-General, to handle complaints of individuals or groups in human rights cases. Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig, representing the World Jewish Congress, called for postponment of an international covenant on human rights if individual right of petition were to be left out.
Dr. Isaac Lewin of the Agudas Israel World Organization presented to the Commission a resolution urging that children made orphans by Nazi persecution be given the opportunity to be raised in the religion of their parents. Dr. Lewin’s resolution was proposed as an alternative to his suggestion presented to the Commission last year that the covenant on human rights include a clause that children whose parents were killed in the war be brought up in the religion of their parents.
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