The 12-member United Nations Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities opened its seventh session here today to discuss the aspects of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which proclaimed the equality of man.
The session was greeted by UN Undersecretary Phillipe de Seynes who emphasized the difficult task of the Subcommission in seeking the abolition of racial and religious discrimination in various fields. Max Sorensen of Denmark, chairman of the Subcommission, referred in his opening remarks to the decision of the United States Supreme Court on the question of segregation in schools and said that certain political events of the past year “show a trend favorable to our work.”
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