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Jewish Groups Appeal for U.N. Protection of Stateless Persons

April 1, 1959
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Jewish organizations today appealed to the United Nations Conference on Stateless Persons, currently in session here, to adopt an international agreement under which stateless persons would have the protection of the UN.

The appeal was placed before the conference by the Coordinating Board of Jewish Organizations which represents B’nai B’rith. the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the South African Board of Jewish Deputies, In the petition, the Board advocated the desirability of an international tribunal which would decide disputes over the application ox interpretation of disputes that might arise from lie proposed international convention.

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