The U.N. Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee today continued debate on the draft International Covenant on Human Rights which would bind all states which sign it to implement the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. So far in the debate there has been a division of opinion as to whether there should be one covenant or two separate covenants–one for political rights, the other for economic and social rights.
The view taken by the representatives of France, Professor Rene Cassin, and of the United States, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, was that it was essential for articles on all rights–political, civic, economic and social–to be drafted and finished in time for the next session of the General Assembly. Mrs. Roosevelt announced that the American delegation intends to propose the broadening of the concept of self-determination of peoples in the draft covenant.
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