The 18-nation United Nations Human Rights Commission will reconvene here tomorrow to draft an international covenant on human rights which will be placed before all member-states of the U.N. by the end of this year. The Commission will take up at the curnent session American proposals submitted in writing in January providing that nations could submit charges of violations of the covenant.
A plea for the establishment of special courts by member states of the U.N. to deal with complaints concerning the viclation of human rights, and for an international law guaranteeing asylum to victims from political, racial and religious persecution, was submitted to the Commission in a special memorandum by the World Jewish Congress.
The memorandum proposed a number of changes in the wording of the International Covenant of Human Rights and suggested measures for the implementation of the Covenant. The W.J.C. pointed out that Article IV of the Covenant as it now reads would permit signatory states to suspend, during war and other public emergencies rights and freedoms guaranteed under the Covenant. The W.J.C. requested that such suspension be so worded as to prevent the creation under the cloak of a public emergency of war, of conditions that would place political racial or religious minorities in jeopardy.
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