Organisation of a second "Round Table" devoted to Human Rights

Recommendation 137 (1957)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

seeDoc. 660, Report of the CulturalCommittee This Recommendation was adoptedby the Assembly at its 8th Sitting, on 3rd May1957

The Assembly,

Considering that the aim ofthe Council of Europe is the achievement of greater unity between its Membersand that one of the methods by which that aim is to be pursued is themaintenance and further realisation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ;

Considering that the Convention for the Protection of Human Rightsand Fundamental Freedoms, which is one of the most important achievements ofthe Council of Europe, constitutes a first step towards the collectiveenforcement of Human Rights ;

Considering that the Convention isin effect a Charter of the spiritual and moral values which are the commonheritage of the community of European peoples ;

Desirous that,with a view to a deeper understanding of this concept, the historical,philosophical and legal significance of the sanctity of human rights should bemore fully realised ;

Believing that the most fitting andeffective means of disseminating the idea of the Council of Europe would be tobring home to the public, on a suitably impressive occasion, the principles ofpersonal and political freedom and the rule of law,

Recommends tothe Committee of Ministers that it should :

1 invite the most eminent European legal thinkers to attend a second"Round Table" at which they would define the principles of a philosophy ofHuman Rights ;

2 hold the "Round Table" at Brussels in 1958,in connection with the Council of Europe's participation in the UniversalExhibition ;

3 make the necessary appropriations for this"Round Table" to have the dignity and prestige of a major European event ;

4 give the "Round Table" and its results the widest possible publicity.