COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
ESTABLISHMENT TO BE SOUGHT
DECISION BY UNITED EUROPE MOVEMENT
9'30 P-im) PARIS, February 28. The council of the United Europe Movement decided at a plenary session to propose to the Council of Europe the establishment or a European Court of Human Rights. The convention approved at the plenary session calls for a court of mi? e , members chosen from persons of nigh moral and professional character.
The list of rights to be protected by law includes freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention, and exile, freedom irom 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. Mr Leon Jouhaux, head of the French Workers’ Force (the nonCommunist unions which broke away from the French Confederation of Labour), was unanimously elected president of the council of the United Europe Movement. He accepted nomination on condition that the movement should remain open to the Communist States if thev decided to adhere to Western democratic principles.
Mr Churchill’s son-in-law, Mr Duncan Sandys. was re-elected chairman of the movement’s executive committee.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25741, 1 March 1949, Page 5
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