The U.N. Economic and Social Council completed action today on the report of the Commission on Human Rights by adopting nine resolutions recommended by the Council’s Social Committee.
In these series of votes, the Council requested the U.N. Secretary-General to ask governments to provide information on logislation and ther action found useful in preventing discrimination and protecting minorities; recommended adoption of educational measures designed to eliminate discrimination and to combat fallacious raco theories; and approved the decision of the Commission to consider at its soventh session additional covenants and measures dealing with economic, social, cultural and political human rights not covered in the present draft International Covenant on Human Rights.
The Council also adopted a resolution transmitting the draft covenant to the General Assembly for certain policy decisions, with the request that the Commission on Human Rights reconsider and prepare a revised draft in the light of these decisions. It also asked the Secretary-General to continue publication of the yearbook on human rights, and took note of the report of the Human Rights Commission.
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