Under the chairmanship of Rene Cassin, president of Alliance Israelite Universelle, the United Nations Human Rights Commission convenes here tomorrow for its 13th session, with many items of importance to Jewry all over the world on its agenda. Israel is one of the 18 UN members on the Commission now.
One of the most urgent items, to be pressed by representatives of British-Jewish nongovernmental organizations accredited for participation, will be the matter of freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention and exile. The Jewish leaders will charge that these human rights have been violated by Egypt through the arrest, imprisonment, exile and property sequestration practiced against Egyptian Jews in the last five or six months.
Other items will include reports from the recently concluded session at New York United Nations headquarters, of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. Among these reports are world-wide studies of discrimination in education, employment, and religious and political rights.
M. Cassin has been chairman of the Human Rights Commission for the last year.
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