Learn about the many ways diplomat, activist, and 2023 American Women Quarters honoree Eleanor Roosevelt made American ...

Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, chaired the UDHR drafting committee. With her were René Cassin of France, who composed the first draft of the Declaration ...

Eleanor Roosevelt holds a Declaration of Human Rights poster in Lake Success, New York, November 1949. The UN General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on ...

In February 1947, a group consisting of Eleanor Roosevelt ... people around the world reading articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in more than 80 languages.

10, to mark the 76th anniversary of Human Rights Day and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's ... the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948 at the end of ...