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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... Romulo, the Filipino journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his articles predicting the end of colonialism; John P. Humphrey, the dedicated Canadian director of the UN's Human Rights Division, who prepared the preliminary draft of the ...
... Romulo, the Filipino journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his articles predicting the end of colonialism; John P. Humphrey, the dedicated Canadian director of the UN's Human Rights Division, who prepared the preliminary draft of the ...
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... Romulo of the Philippines. One of the more flamboyant characters in the UN's early history, Romulo had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1941 for a series of newspaper articles forecasting that the days of colonialism in East Asia were numbered ...
... Romulo of the Philippines. One of the more flamboyant characters in the UN's early history, Romulo had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1941 for a series of newspaper articles forecasting that the days of colonialism in East Asia were numbered ...
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... Romulo had attended the Bretton Woods economic conference. Romulo came away from that meeting indignant that the major powers “had already set themselves up to be the ones to decide what the economic pattern of the postwar world should ...
... Romulo had attended the Bretton Woods economic conference. Romulo came away from that meeting indignant that the major powers “had already set themselves up to be the ones to decide what the economic pattern of the postwar world should ...
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... Romulo's suspicions were far from fanciful. As the Big Four approached agreement on the powers of the Security Council, Cadogan wrote that he expected a final decision in a day or two, but “we shall have all the little fellows yapping ...
... Romulo's suspicions were far from fanciful. As the Big Four approached agreement on the powers of the Security Council, Cadogan wrote that he expected a final decision in a day or two, but “we shall have all the little fellows yapping ...
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... Romulo was disappointed, however, that the Charter provisions dealing with non-self-governing territories obligated the states responsible for those territories only to “develop self-government” with no mention of independence. He took ...
... Romulo was disappointed, however, that the Charter provisions dealing with non-self-governing territories obligated the states responsible for those territories only to “develop self-government” with no mention of independence. He took ...
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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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A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human ... Mary Ann Glendon Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human ... Mary Ann Glendon Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
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