Word: rossell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief Judge Rossel C. Thompson of the United States Court for the District of Maryland had asked him to submit the resolution, Marbury said...
...explained that if the great powers suddenly halted production of weapons, numerous individuals would be left jobless. It is the problems of individuals in these and other areas that the U.N. is spending extensive time and funds to solve. Mme. Rossel described various U.N. activities which are designed to work with human beings instead of statistics, and outlined the recent emphasis on understanding the human growing pains" of the new countries of Africa. We should offer these countries trade and education, she said, but they must request it it is wrong and harmful for the U.N. to try force...
...Rossel then told of the efforts of the Committee on Human Rights, formed in 1951. The purpose of the committee is to promote the "freedoms of opinion, expression, movement, assembly and life" for all the peoples of the world. She read from a committee statement proposing limitations on capital punishment: "Everyone's right to life would be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life...
...Commission on the Status of Women was also active in the U.N., according to Mme. Rossel. In many countries women are treated as legal inferiors to men, and women in countries in which females have obtained equal legal rights, custom restricts them to the position of "the weaker sex." The commission is attempting to remedy this situation...
...Rossel concluded by stating that a world full of "well-fed, well-educated people should be the U.N.'s goal...