MINORITY GROUPS
NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS TASK FOR COMMISSION (9 a.m.) NEW YORK. Jan. 29. The Human Rights Commission has already received thousands of complaints from minority groups and individuals throughout the world. Senor Carlos Roniulo (Philippines) moved a motion for creating a committee to recommend how the complaints should be dealt with, saying it was the commission's first duty to create permanent machinery for dealing with questions of human rights. It should not deal haphazardly with individual cases.
As an example of the complaints received, he quoted one from two Australian aborigines named Dooley and Clancy, another from Filipino city workers asking for support for a strike for more wages, and a third from interned American conscientious object ors. • He asked how members of the commission could possibly decide the rights or wrongs or hundreds of such complaints. Nevertheless, there were hundreds of complaints which were not petty. At least they should be heard. The commission should act as the world’s conscience. The motion was carried by five votes to three.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22242, 30 January 1947, Page 6
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