A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human RightsRandom House Publishing Group, 2001 M03 30 - 368 páginas FINALIST FOR THE ROBERT F. KENNEDY BOOK AWARD • “An important, potentially galvanizing book, and in this frightful, ferocious time, marked by war and agony, it is urgent reading.”—Blanche Wiesen Cook, Los Angeles Times Unafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the world’s first international bill of rights. A World Made New is the dramatic and inspiring story of the remarkable group of men and women from around the world who participated in this historic achievement and gave us the founding document of the modern human rights movement. Spurred on by the horrors of the Second World War and working against the clock in the brief window of hope between the armistice and the Cold War, they grappled together to articulate a new vision of the rights that every man and woman in every country around the world should share, regardless of their culture or religion. A landmark work of narrative history based in part on diaries and letters to which Mary Ann Glendon, an award-winning professor of law at Harvard University, was given exclusive access, A World Made New is the first book devoted to this crucial turning point in Eleanor Roosevelt’s life, and in world history. |
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... Cassin (Cassin Draft) 3. The June 1947 Draft Revised by the Full Commission 4. The Commission's December 1947 Draft (Geneva Draft) 5. The Commission's June 1948 Draft (Lake Success Draft) 6. The December 1948 Third Committee Draft 7 ...
... Cassin (Cassin Draft) 3. The June 1947 Draft Revised by the Full Commission 4. The Commission's December 1947 Draft (Geneva Draft) 5. The Commission's June 1948 Draft (Lake Success Draft) 6. The December 1948 Third Committee Draft 7 ...
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... Cassin, an ardent supporter of a Jewish homeland, who lost twenty-nine relatives in concentration camps. When one considers that two world wars and mass slaughters of innocents had given the framers every reason to despair about the ...
... Cassin, an ardent supporter of a Jewish homeland, who lost twenty-nine relatives in concentration camps. When one considers that two world wars and mass slaughters of innocents had given the framers every reason to despair about the ...
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... Cassin, the legal genius of the Free French, who transformed what might have been a mere list or “bill” of rights into a geodesic dome of interlocking principles; Charles Malik, existentialist philosopher turned master diplomat, a ...
... Cassin, the legal genius of the Free French, who transformed what might have been a mere list or “bill” of rights into a geodesic dome of interlocking principles; Charles Malik, existentialist philosopher turned master diplomat, a ...
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... Cassin had spoken for fifteen or twenty minutes without pausing for translation, the interpreter broke down in tears and fled the room, leaving Mrs. Roosevelt, who fortunately was fluent in French, to summarize his remarks as best she ...
... Cassin had spoken for fifteen or twenty minutes without pausing for translation, the interpreter broke down in tears and fled the room, leaving Mrs. Roosevelt, who fortunately was fluent in French, to summarize his remarks as best she ...
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... Cassin, both in their sixties, were the oldest of the group; Charles Malik, at forty, was the youngest. The only women members were Roosevelt and Hansa Mehta, an Indian legislator. An activist in the movement that led to India's ...
... Cassin, both in their sixties, were the oldest of the group; Charles Malik, at forty, was the youngest. The only women members were Roosevelt and Hansa Mehta, an Indian legislator. An activist in the movement that led to India's ...
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Every Conceivable Right | |
A Philosophical Investigation | |
Late Nights in Geneva | |
In the Eye of the Hurricane | |
Autumn in Paris | |
The Nations Have Their | |
The Declaration of Interdependence | |
The Deep Freeze | |
Universality Under Siege | |
The Declaration Today | |
Notes | |
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