Meetings & Events

16th UN Session on Human Rights

29 February 1960

Among the main topics before the 18-member UN Commission on Human Rights now meeting in Geneva are the right of asylum, the prevention of discrimination, and ways of eradicating racial prejudice such as was manifested in recent anti-Semitic outbreaks.
This photograph shows Mr. Mario Amadeo, of Argentina, who was elected Chairman of the current session of the Commission.

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