Immediate measures for the protection of the rights of stateless persons, backed by a permanent international treaty, was proposed by the United Sates delegate to the U.N. Economic and Social Council.
The American statement, made by Leroy Stinabower, advisor to the American delegation, was introduced in the Council debate amidst general acclaim of the principles enunciated in a draft Declaration of Human Rights. The declaration, with a supplementary one for an international treaty, was presented by the Human Rights Commission. The Council cannot give full and immediate consideration to the work, until member governments, now being polled, have submitted their observations on the documents.
Even at this tentative stage of consideration there appeared today a great degree of unanimity for the adoption of an International Bill be Rights. At the same tome, today’s round-table observations indicated sharpening lines difference regarding implementation.
The first clash came when the U.S. delegate asked that complaints of violation of the bill should be kept secret and collected merely as examples of violation. The council, he said, “was not a court of redress.” The Soviet representative urged that machinery be set up to uncover discrimination against minorities “as practiced in certain countries.”
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