WRITTEN QUESTIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS TO THE COUNCIL OR COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (SELECTION)—Continued 225/71 Glinne.. 305/71 Vredeling... 328/71 Vals. 337/71 Oele and Vredeling.. 440/71 Vredeling... 464/71 Berkhouwer. 491/71 Romeo and Covelli.. 536/71 Glinne.... 567/71 do. Decorations conferred on officials of the Commission Greece and the enlargement of the Community.... Future relations between Portugal and the EEC. Right of assembly of migrant workers... Possible association between Spain and the EEC..... 582/71 Carettoni, Romagnoli, and lotti. Situation in Northern Ireland. 24/72 Vredeling.. Rights of migrants from the Community working in Relations between the Community and the Eastern Right to emigrate for Bohemians. Ratification by France of the European Convention C27 Mar. 17, 1972 C32 Apr. 1, 1972 Possible application by Spain for association with or Association between Greece and the Community... Difficulties at Rotterdam between a section of the population and the Turkish workers living there. Situation of Ugandan Asians carrying a British pass- Violation of human rights in Gerece and application Britain's request that member states of the EEC C90 Aug. 25, 1972 C105 Oct. 10, 1972 C122 Nov. 24, 1972 WRITTEN QUESTIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS TO THE COUNCIL OR COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (SELECTION)—Continued Official journal No. Author Subject Massacres committed by Portuguese troups in Mozambique and Angola. Constitutional referendum in Greece on July 29, 1973. Customs control and the free movement of ideas and persons in the Community. Assistance to Amnesty International. Information Bureau of the EEC, Santiago, Chile. Political rights of migrant workers. Consideration of the problems faced by foreign students in the Community countries. Representation of the Commission of the European Communities in Chile. Deportation of illegal immigrants.. Legal position of women in Ireland. Discrimination in respect of freedom of establishment in Belgium. Cost of educating children of foreign. Notification to the Spanish Ambassador of a European Parliament resolution. Attitude of the member states and of the EEC toward the international status of Namibia (formerly South-West Africa). Relations with the military government of Chile. Convergence of nationals laws affecting naturalization. Incorporation in the constitutions of the member states of a basic right to a proper human environment. Situation of political prisoners in Mali. Commission report on the protection of the constitutionally guaranteed basic rights of Community citizens when Community law is drafted. Racial discrimination in the United Kingdom_. The Franco-Caprino case and application of the Immigration Act in the United Kingdom. Presence in Santiago (Chile) of U.N. and Community services. 301/75 Goutmann.. 511/75 538/75 Lagorce. 600/75 Calewaert.. Human rights in Spain.. Infringement of the European Convention for the Consequences of the adoption on Dec. 22, 1975, by an intergovernmental meeting of UNESCO experts of a draft declaration assimilating zionism to racism. C70 Mar. 21, 1977 C33 Feb. 13, 1976 C119 May 29, 1976 C80 Apr. 5, 1976 C80 Do. C67 Mar. 22, 1976 C119 May 29, 1976 C89 Apr. 16, 1976 98-144-77-4 WRITTEN QUESTIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS TO THE COUNCIL OR COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (SELECTION)—Continued ORAL QUESTIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS TO THE COMMISSION AND/OR COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND/OR THE CONFERENCE OF FOREIGN MINISTERS OF THE MEMBER STATES ORAL QUESTIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS TO THE COMMISSION AND/OR COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND/OR THE CONFERENCE OF FOREIGN MINISTERS OF THE MEMBER STATES-Continued WORKING DOCUMENT ON OFFICE OF THE COORDINATOR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE (Paper by Mr. Fraser) I. Strengthening the State Department Bureaucracy in Human Rights1 The same 1976 Congressional amendment which produced Section 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act (requiring human rights reports on each military aid recipient country) also added a new subsection to Section 624 of the same Act. This subsection enlarges and institutionalizes the human rights bureaucracy already formed by the State Department. It requires that a Coordinator for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, serve under the Secretary of State and, among other duties, specifically prepare the reports required under Section 116 (requiring human rights reports on economic aid recipient countries) and 502B. 995 4 The initial series of hearings by the Fraser subcommittee had given considerable attention to proposals for strengthening the State Department bureaucracy with respect to human rights. Congressman Fraser introduced a bill which would have provided for the establishment of a Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs within the Department. Under it the Assistant Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs would be responsible for the areas of "human rights, assistance for refugees, people migrating across international boundaries, and victims of natural disasters and of wars occurring outside the United States." Many of the witnesses testified in favor of creating such a bureau. The subcommittee also received testimony from the Acting Legal Adviser, George Aldrich. Apparently in response to the subcommittee's hearings, Mr. Aldrich notified the subcommittee that to improve the "balance" in weighing human rights factors in the policy making process, the Department was considering assigning "to an office within each regional bureau responsibility for the protection of human rights in that region. If this were done, human rights considerations might more easily be seen as legitimate components of the policymaking process, not as external considerations to be avoided in that process."? SUBCOMMITTEE ACTION The subcommittee recommended strengthening existing bureaus in the Department rather than creating a separate bureau for human rights. The Department of State should strengthen its organization in the human rights field through: (a) Creation of an Office for Human Rights within the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, with an apropriate increase of staff for these functions; (b) Assignment of an Officer for Human Rights in each regional bureau of the Department with responsibility for making policy recommendations and comments based on observation and analysis of human rights practices in the countries of the region and their significance in U.S. foreign policy relations with these countries; and (c) Appointment of an Assistant Legal Adviser on Human Rights in the Legal Adviser's Office. 1 Section 1 of this paper is adapted from an article by John Salzberg, staff consultant, House International Relations Committee, in the Texas International Law Journal, Spring/Summer 1977 (Vol. 12. Nos. 2 and 3). 222 U.S.C. 2384 (Supp. 1976). See appendix for text. At that time, the only person working fulltime on human rights was Warren Hewitt, Officer in Charge of Human Rights. Bureau of International Organization Affairs. 4 H. R. 10455, 93d Cong., 1st sess. (1973). 5 1975 Hearings, supra note 1, at 594. See, e.g., testimony by Senator Edward Kennedy, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Professor Thomas Farer, Professor Thomas Buergenthal, Mrs. Rita Hauser, Professor Richard Falk, Mr. Jerome Shestack. Id. passim. 7 Id. 95. Human Rights Report, supra note 3. (38) |