Executive Council urges our government to take the Initiative in proposing that the Teheran Conference take positive steps for implementing: Article 13(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which provides that "Everyone has the right to leave any country. including his own. and to return to his country." Article 14(1) which provides that "Everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution." The creation of more effective safeguards against the violation of human rights by establishing a Permanent UN Commission on the Preservation and Promotion of Human Rights. with authority to appoint Human Rights Observation Committees endowed with the rights and powers of investigation. surveillance and reporting. The elimination by the UN Member States of all legal. political administrative and police barriers to the widest freedom of circulation among their peoples of all UN publications. surveys. reports and other documents acted upon by the General Assembly or any of its subdivisions. Enforcement of effective sanctions against repressive colonialist regimes in the African territories under Portuguese and Spanish administration. in Rhodesia. and South Africa. Preparation of a program for a more effective solution of all refugee problems (Arab and Jewish alike) by ratifying the October 4. 1967 Protocol on Refugees which enlarged the scope of the 1951 Refugee Convention. Finally. we urge our government to include a representative of the AFCIO in the U.S. delegation to the Teheran Conference.
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