Proposals for an International Bill of Rights which would guarantee basic liberties and make specific provision against discrimination on grounds of sex, language, nationality or religion have been submitted by the American Jewish Committee to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which will begin meeting here tomorrow, it was announced by Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, president of the Committee.
Three specific recommendations among those submitted call for guarantees against discrimination, or incitement to discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, language or religion, in legal treatment of all persons or groups, and in matters of education, economic opportunity and public and private employment. Another recommendation asks that the International Bill of Rights to be drawn up by the U.N. be made part of the constitutions of all U.N. members, and that the U.N. establish machinery for supervision and enforcement of human rights provisions.
The American Jewish Committee also requested that peace treaties with former enemy states obligate these states to include the International Bill of Rights in their constitutions, and that the Commission on Human Rights be authorized to designate representatives to these states with power to collect information on the observation of the Bill, which would be made part of international law and come under the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice.
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