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Mrs. Elennor Roosevelt yesterday urged United States ratification of the United Nations' Covenant of Human Rights at a speech to an overflow audience in Sanders Theatre.
Speaking to a Harvard-Radcliffe crowd of 1200 persons, Mrs. Roosevelt distinguished between the "Declaration of Human Rights" and the "Covenant of Human Rights," and then told of the difficulties involved in getting an agreement among nations on either document.
The Declaration, which was accepted by 48 nations at the UN meeting in Paris last year, states what should be the rights of all people, while the Covenant is a legal treaty among nations binding them to the protection of these "universal rights" for all their citizens.
The Covenant of Human Rights, which gives legal value to the Declaration, is now is the process of being approved by the individual nations. According to Mrs. Roosevelt, it will run in to more difficulty than the Declaration did.
Mrs. Roosevelt has been active in the United Nations on behalf of the Covenant of Human Rights, and is at present Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights.