Justice Emil Sandstroem, Chief Justice of the Swedish Supreme Court, and Prof, Ricardo J. Alfaro of Panama were today named by the U.N. International Law Commission to draw up a report on the establishment of an international tribunal to try persons charged with genocide and similar crimes.
Justice Sandstroem was formerly head of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, which brought in the final partition plan for Palestine, while Prof. Alfaro is credited with being one of the persons chiefly responsible for the U.N.’s acceptance of a genocide covenant.
The U.N. Human Bights Commission today deferred a vote on the question of whether to include implementation measures in the body of the proposed international Covenant of Human Bights or whether to cover that question in a separate agreement.
Some of the delegates at the Commission session today expressed the fear that if the covenant and its implementing provisions are placed in separate pacts some nations will sign the weaker of the two documents. However, it is generally agreed that there is need for putting teeth into the covenant in some form or other.
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