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UNIVERSAL
DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS - As chair of the subcommittee that drafted
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT played a
critical role in the crafting of the Declaration, skillfully creating an
atmosphere that permitted blending the ideas and norms of different cultures
together in a document nations around the globe could assent to while
marshaling U.S. support for swift passage of the declaration by separating it
from a legally binding (and more problematic) covenant . Later as chairman of
the Human Rights Commission, she presented the document to the UN General
Assembly and was instrumental in its passage. Today, more than 50 years after
its passage, the UDHR remains the touchstone of the global Human Rights
movement and a key component of an international system that provides for
international scrutiny of the way in which a nation treats its citizens.
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN
RIGHTS: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
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The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project
Eleanor Roosevelt represents
all that is good about democracy. Her persistent, exceedingly personal outreach
to people around the globe; her determination to create institutions respectful
of people�s
needs and dreams; and her
refusal to succumb to the politics of despair remain the example of democratic
practice. Almost forty years after her death, she remains arguably the world�s
most outspoken advocate for human rights.
Eleanor Roosevelt left a
voluminous written legacy. She wrote seventeen political books (although only
one remains in print), more than eight thousand columns, over four hundred
articles, an average of 150 letters a day, and countless memoranda and
speeches--all without a ghost writer. Her State Department human rights file
fills 198 archival boxes. The records of her work as an American delegate to
the United Nations, her frequent radio and television commentaries, and the
documentation of the positions she advocated are scattered around the world.
The documentary record of her
work is invaluable. It reveals the struggle to build the United Nations, craft
a viable Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ensure
civil rights and civil liberties, protect refugees, promote the living wage,
assist the developing world, promote widespread inclusive economic prosperity,
contain nuclear weaponry, recognize Israel and Palestine, dismantle apartheid,
and encourage women�s
full political and economic participation.
As direct and engaging as it
is bold, her work resonates with powerful examples of policies, debates, and implementation
strategies essential to contemporary discussions of democratic values and human
rights policies. It is a resource as valuable to those studying the spread of
democratic governments across
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