A proposal for the appointment of a High Commissioner for Human Rights, now on the agenda of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, was strongly supported here today at the current session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council by Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig, international affairs director of the World Jewish Congress. The Council is the Human Rights’ Commission’s parent body.
Dr. Perlzweig, participating in the debate as representative of the WJC, which has consultative status before ECOSOC, also urged that more human rights seminars, like one held recently in Yugoslavia, be convened by the United Nations. Such seminars, he said, provide “an exceptionally favorable opportunity for discussion of controversial problems by participants who are not bound by rigid diplomatic instructions.”
Another proposal by Dr. Perlzweig urged the ECOSOC to ratify a unanimous decision by the Human Rights Commission to seek the establishment of legal procedures on the international level, to make certain that no statutes of limitations be applied to war crimes and to crimes against humanity.
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