The U.N. Economic and Social Committee’s social committee today approved a resolution designed to eliminate statelessness. The resolution urges all governments to examine sympathetically applications for naturalization from stateless persons residing habitually in their territories.
The Agudas Israel World Organization earlier presented a memorandum to the Ad Hoc Committee on Statelessness urging the adoption of Article XV of the U.N. Human Rights Declaration, asserting that every human being has a right to nationality.
The Agudah memorandum suggested further that supervision of the Convention be entrusted to the office of a High Commissioner for Refugees and that organizations enjoying consultative status at the United Nations be permitted to submit proposals to the commissioner. The Agudah also suggested that the Convention be open to ratification by non-member as well as member states of the United Nations.
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