The plan drafted by the Consultative Council of Jewish Organizations providing for the appointment of a United Nations attorney-general to co-ordinate the human rights aspects of the international organization’s work has been sponsored by the Government of Uruguay and placed on the agenda of the current U.N. General Assembly it was announced here today by Moses Moscowicz, general secretary of the Council. The Council’s member organizations are the American Jewish Committee, the Anglo-Jewish Association and the Alliance Israelite Universelle.
Speaking at a reception for newspapermen here, Mr. Moscovicz declared that adoption of the plan–which was discussed with other Jewish organizations before it was proposed–would result in more effective protection of human rights and would permit non-governmental organizations and individuals, as well as governments, to bring complaints of violations of human rights before the U.N. In effect, the plan provides for an office of an attorney-general to investigate all complaints of human rights violations and act in such matters in the name of the international community.
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