Religious and other discriminations and prejudices, including anti-Semitism, will come to the forefront on the United Nations agenda tomorrow, when the United Nations Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, opens its two-week annual session.
The 14-member group will discuss discrimination in the political field, discrimination in regard to a person’s right to leave a country and to return to one’s own native land, anti-Semitic manifestations and other forms of racial and religious intolerance.
On the agenda, also, are reports on discrimination in education, discriminations regarding religious rights and practices, and measures to be taken for the cessation of any advocacy of national, racial or religious hostility that constitutes an incitement to hatred and violence.
The members of the subcommission serve as individual experts, but their election, by the Human Rights Commission, is subject to the approval of their respective governments. The American member of the anti-bias group is Judge Philip Halpern, of Buffalo, a well-known Jewish communal leader.
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