Adopt N.Z. Suggestions On Human Rights Issue

Northern Advocate, 30 November 1948, Page 9

Adopt N.Z. Suggestions On Human Rights Issue

PAUL'S, Mon. (11 a.m.). —The Human Lights Committee of the United Nations, on the recommendation of the sub-committee, adopted a compromise in drafting Article 21 of the Declaration on Human Rights. 'Phis article, which deals among oilier things with the rights of individuals to join trade unions, was criticised by New Zealand Zealand representations that the sub-committee was instructed to when first submitted, and it was largely as a result of the New consider the matter further.

The article in the form finally adopted now reads: “Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to jus! and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment “Everyone v uhour any di.-vvjmma-t.on has the rigid to equal pay tor equal work. REMUNERATION ’Everyone who works has the right io just and favourable remuneration, ensuring for his family and himself an

existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. “Everyone has the right to form and join utides unions for tin? protection of his intero::!:?,'

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