The Fourth International Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations Interested in Migration (NGO) opened here today to discuss problems connected with the admission of refugees to various countries. About 125 delegates from 60 voluntary agencies, including Jewish, are participating in the parley which will last six days. The Conference is being held under the joint sponsorship of the United Nations and the International Labor Office.
(In a statement issued in New York today by HIAS, it was emphasized that its representatives at the Conference will recommend that the NGO take action “to prompt the governments of the world to simplify their migration procedures and to liberalize their immigration laws.”)
The Conference will discuss the need for establishing a single international governmental organization within the framework of the United Nations to deal with refugee problems through integration, rehabilitation, temporary aid and emigration for refugees in countries where they cannot be absorbed to countries which need their skills.
Meanwhile, it was announced here today that the International Refugee Organization in Liquidation, which has its headquarters in Geneva, will be dissolved next month. The organization has resettled more than one million refugees and during liquidation has made available more than $5,000,000 to various societies for resettlement of displaced persons.
It was also announced here today that a high official of the International Committee for Migration from Europe will leave for Washington this week to consult with United States officials on the implementation of the new American law providing for the admission of 214, 000 aliens to the United States within three years above existing immigration quotas.
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