Robert Cecil on UK and other policies in Far East (Sino-Japanese dispute); U.S. observer at Council; De Madariaga and the Italo-Abyssinian question.
Events of past six weeks - New Danzig government policy; role of Hitler; riots in Poland, anti-sovietism; session with Danzig Senate; possible renewal of S. Lester's mandate; 11 May session of League of Nations; Abyssinia; S. Lester's re-appointment: A. Eden, J. Avenol; future League of Nations position in Danzig; disarray in Geneva; Dublin reaction to work in Danzig; American Shoe Club: collection of shoes that have been worn by men of renown.
Michael George Okeyo, Kenya's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, addresses the session to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Geneva Convention.
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Palais d'Eté du Gouverneur à Mustapha Supérieur
Algeria today signed the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The two International Covenants on Human Rights were adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 1966 in resolution 2200 (XXI). The two Covenants, when they enter into force, will require the states parties to them to implement the rights and freedoms proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Ambassador Tewfik Bouattoura, Permanent Representative of Algeria to the UN, signing the two International Covenants. At left is Mr. Rachid Gafez, Attaché, Mission of Algeria. At right is Mr. F. Blaine Sloan, Director, General Legal Division.
Ibrahima Fall (left), Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, is the guest of World Chronicle. To the right is the programme's Moderator, Michael Littlejohns, and at centre is Obi Emekewue of the News Agency of Nigeria.
Chairman of the Special Committee to investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories, Ambassador H. S. Amerasinghe (Sri-Lanka), today presented to Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim the Committee's report.
The three-nation Committee composed of Sri Lanka, Senegal and Yugoslavia was established in 1968 by General Assembly resolution 2443 (XXIII). The other two members of the Committee are Chief Justice Keba Mbaye, First President of Supreme Court of Senegal, and Borut Bohte, Professor in the Faculty of Law of Ljubljana University, Yugoslavia.
Ambassador H.S. Amerasinghe (left), Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN, presenting the Committee's report to Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Looking on are Professor Borut Bohte (left) and Mr. John P. Pace, Human Rights Officer of the UN.
Chairman of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories, Ambassador H.S. Amerasinghe (Sri-Lanka), today presented to Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim the Committee's report.
The three-nations Committee composed of Sri Lanka, Senegal and Yugoslavia was established in 1968 by General Assembly resolution 2443 (XXIII). The other two members of the Committee are Chief Justice Keba Mbaye, First President of Supreme Court of Senegal, and Borut Bohte, Professor in the Faculty of Law of Ljubljana University, Yugoslavia.
After presenting the Committee's report, Ambassador H. S. Amerasinghe (left), Permanent representative of Sri Lanka to the UN, discussing some points with Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim.