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Suggested preliminary draft of report to council. Nov. 23, 1943. [1] (1943)

handle is hein.ali/hrbor605433 and id is 1 raw text is: November 23, 1943 Suggested Preliminary Draft of Report to Council Te understand thpt the object of our appointment wtas to ascertain if 'we could sgree on rights essential to the freedom of the individual and if so frame a statement of such rights. We agree vwith the assumption underlying the Institute's undertaking that the foundation of the ci~zdlization for the survival of which the United Nations are now fighting is the freedom of the Individual, Representing as we do byv birth, education, End experience liber-. thought In many different nations having varying cultural deals our discussions have shovm the basic similarity of our respective concepts of those freedoms the possession of the right to which It is essential today that society should promote and protect. We herewith. submit a draft of a Declaration of Individual R! ghts. It is the result of several conferences each lasting two or three days supplemented by meetings of subcommittees appointed to deal .ith the various types of rights the examination of which at our ff. rst meeting led us to believe -were worthy of further consideration with the possibility of their ultimate inclusion as essential individual rights in our final draft. Last June we Frranged for a sub- committee to prepare in the light of our prior deliberations - preliminiry drtft. Thie Reporters of the prior subcommittees were members of the committee. (It is suggested that a statement should bb inserted here of the final qopiderati.pn and-action by Advisers on the report of the special comaittee.) in preparation for our first meeting a yegr ago last November your Di-rector had prepared for our information primary and secondary source materiel..

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