HELPING INDIGENT FOREIGNERS
MODEL CONVENTION DRAFTED
AT GENEVA
(BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.)
RUGBY, February 27.
A message from G eneva states that the committee of experts convened by the League of Nations to examine the problem of assistance to indigent foreigners and - the execution of maintenance obligations abroad concluded its third session after drafting the text of a model convention for the use of governments in concluding among themselves arrangements in favour of indigent foreigners. The model convention is based on the idea that national legal protection must extend to foreigners living in a country* and that the principles of humanity and social order justify public aid to foreigners without means of subsistence. The regulation of social insurance, unemployment relief, and judicial assistance was left outside the scope of the convention. The number of foreigners in the world who might benefit by the assistance outlined in the convention is estimated at 29,000,000.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 1 March 1938, Page 9
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