As steps got under way here today to speed the entire process of the years-long effort to transform the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into international treaties, Israel today continued its fight in one of the General Assembly committees to obtain approval for a clause outlawing the use of human beings in so-called medical or “scientific” experimentation.
The fight for approval of this clause, in which Dr. Ellezer Yapou, a member of the Israel delegation, has been one of the leaders, seemed this afternoon to have gained enough backing to pass in the General Assembly’s Social and Humanitarian Committee.
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