HUMAN RIGHTS
-FREEDOM OF OPINION AND INFORMATION NEW YORK, January 3. The United States has proposed that the United Nations draft convention on human rights should include a guarantee of freedom of opinions and information. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, chairman of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, to-night said that the proposal had been sent to the Secretary-General of- the Uniter Nations (Mr Trygve Lie). It read: (1) Everyone shall have the right to be free from government interence, to hold opinions, and to seek, receive, and impart information, opinions, and ideas, regardless of frontiers, through speech, press, art, or any other medium. (2) This right shall he subject only to such limitations as are pursuant to law and necessary for the prosecution of national security, public order, safety, health, or morals, or the rights and freedoms of others. This simplified article would make a separate information convention unnecessary. The General Assembly in two years failed to agree on the question and eventually referred it to the Human Rights Commission. The commission will meet at Geneva on March 27.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 71, 5 January 1950, Page 6
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