The U.S. Government today made public a plan for protection of human rights which is now being negotiated in the United Nations. Under the American plan, revealed at a press conference by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. representative to the Human Rights Commission, member states will have the right to negotiate a violation of a human right through direct negotiations. Should this fail, the plan provides for the establishment through the U.N. of a five-member panel with rights to receive evidence and to submit the dispute to the International Court of Justice.
Mrs. Roosevelt said the U.S. was prepared to push action on the draft covenant for final approval by the next General Assembly. The covenant embodies major civil, political and religious rights of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights already approved by the Assembly. When ratified these provisions, universally accepted in principle, will become international law.
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