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ACTION GROUP

ON HUMAN

RIGHTS URGED

By Our Correspondent in Sasbourg

A programnie for protecting human rights effectively should be worked out by a special "action

committee of leading European legal experts, the Council of Europe's Parliamen- tary Assembly decided yester day.

Presenting the

programate, Mr Percy Grieve, Conservative MP for Solihull and a Euro- pean Assembly member since 1969, said that the special com mittce should study the possi bility of completing the Euro- 017 Human pean Convention Rights or draw up new instru- the following mer's to rights:

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Rights of women and children, rights of prisoners in general and political prisoners in par- ticular, freedom of information and the ensuing protection of journalists. The resolution en- shrining the programe unanimously voted on by the Assembly.

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