Six million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany. World reaction to this monstrous crime against humanity resulted in the United Nations Convention on Genocide. The concern over genocide spread into other areas of human rights. resulting in the United Nations conventions or protocols on forced labor. slavery. the political rights for women. and the.protection of refugees. A letter to the editor of the New York Times in December. 1963. expressed grave concern thatFifteen years since the adoption of the Declaration of Human Rights little has been done (by the United States) to act upon its terms. The letter. written by Phil Baum. director of the Commission on International Affairs of the American Jewish Congress. was printed in the AntiSlavery Reporter and Aborigines Friend in January of 1966.
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