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Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.

Universal declaration of human rights in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, Arabic / Declaracion universal de derechos humanos Al-I�l�an al-��alam�i li-�huq�uq al-ins�an Hi jie ren quan xuan yan Declaration universelle des droits de l'homme Eleanor Roosevelt, et al. - 50 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948 in the midst of an especially bitter phase of the Cold War. Many people contributed to this remarkable achievement, but most observers believe that the UN Commission on Human Rights, which drafted the Declaration, would not have succeeded in reaching agreement without the leadership of the Commission�s chair: Eleanor Roosevelt. ER herself regarded her role in drafting and securing adoption of the Declaration as her greatest achievement. As she readily admitted, she had no legal training or expert knowledge of parliamentary procedure, but she brought to her job as chair the skills she had acquired as political activist, reformer, and advocate for those excluded from power and an understanding of the meaning of freedom earned through a deep engagement in the struggle in her own country for social and economic justice, civil rights, and women�s rights. She possessed not only a passionate commitment to human rights, but a hard-earned knowledge of the political and cultural obstacles to securing them in a divided world. -- from http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu (Nov. 20, 2015).

ISBN: 1557094551 9781557094551

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Subjects--Corporate Names:
United Nations. General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations. General Assembly)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human rights.
Human rights--International cooperation.
Human rights.
Human rights--International cooperation.

LC Class. No.: JC571 / .R66 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 323