COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
ESTABLISHMENT TO BE SOUGHT PARIS, February 28. The council of the United Europe Movement decided at a plenary session to propose to the Council of Europe the establishment of a European Court of Human Rights. The convention approved at the plenary session calls for a court of nine members chosen from persons of “high moral and professional character/' The list of rights to be protected by law includes freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention, and exile, freedom from slavery and compulsory labour, freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly, equality before the law, and freedom from discrimination on account of religion, race, or national origin.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 119, 1 March 1949, Page 3
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