Eleanor Roosevelt and the UDHR
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- Eleanor Roosevelt and the UDHR
- Human Rights
- The dictionary defines a human right as 'a right which is believed to belong to every person.'
- Divided into three different kinds of rights.
- Constitutional rights
- Statutory rghts
- Constitutional rights
- As of 2005 a Human Rights Council was created by the Un, to evaluate when these are being degraded.
- Many non-government organisations also try to fight for people's human rights...
- Amnesty International.
- Human Rights Watch.
- Impacts
- Although these are not laws, many countries have include some of, if not all of, the UDHR in their laws.
- These laws help prevent tyrants llike Hitler from ever taking power and committing horrific crimes again.
- What the UDHR layed out
- In this role she helped to write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- She also served as the chair of the UN's Human Rights Commission. As a member of the Human Rights Commission,
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, was established in 1948 by the UN general assembly.
- The UDHR set up pieces of legislation that defined a list of basic human rights, and how they can be met.
- Some of these include...
- Freedom from Slavery
- Right to Education
- Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence
- Freedom of Opinion and Information
- Created in the wake of Hitler's genocide.
- In this role she helped to write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Human Rights
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