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Eleanor Roosevelt at United Nations for Human Rights Commission meeting in Lake Success, New York, in 1947. The UNHRC was established in 1946 by ECOSOC, and was one of the first two "Functional Commissions" set up within the early UN structure (the other being the Commission on the Status of Women).
In 1997, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington D.C. was dedicated; it includes a bronze statue of Eleanor Roosevelt standing before the United Nations emblem, which honors her dedication to the United Nations. It is the only presidential memorial to depict a first lady. [250]
Text, Audio, and Video excerpt of Eleanor Roosevelt's Address to the United Nations on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at AmericanRhetoric.com; Animated presentation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Amnesty International on YouTube (in English duration 20 minutes and 23 seconds).
Members of the Commission who contributed significantly to the creation of the Declaration included Canadian John Peters Humphrey of the United Nations Secretariat, Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States (who chaired the Drafting Committee), René Cassin of France, Charles Malik of Lebanon, P. C. Chang of Republic of China, [a] and Hansa Jivraj ...
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political [2] ... Eleanor Roosevelt with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1949. In 1948, ...
The United States, the United Nations, and human rights: the Eleanor Roosevelt and Jimmy Carter eras (1979) online Normand, Roger, and Sarah Zaidi. Human rights at the UN: The political history of universal justice (Indiana UP, 2008).
In 1959, Eleanor Roosevelt questioned what it means to interact with automation, and what it is that makes us human, writes Linda Thomas-Greenfield. In 1959, Eleanor Roosevelt questioned what it ...
Eleanor Roosevelt holding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1949. The International Bill of Human Rights was the name given to UN General Assembly Resolution 217 (III) and two international treaties established by the United Nations.