Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies while convalescing in Warm Springs, Georgia. September 2: Japan surrenders to the Allies, World War II ends. Eleanor is elected as head of the United Nations Human ...

Ever since former US First Lady and human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt inspired the first UN sub-commission on the ...

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, the first Chairperson of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, was instrumental in drafting and ensuring the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration ...

Eleanor Roosevelt, 1958 This teaching guide relates to the three mandated outreach programmes of the United Nations: history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Holocaust and the 1994 Genocide ...

A year after her husband’s death in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt became a delegate to the United Nations. She was instrumental in formulating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and securing ...

With the end of that war, and the creation of the United Nations ... cultural and religious backgrounds. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, chaired the UDHR ...

One Tuesday, Dec. 10, we commemorated the 76th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of ... excited to announce the support of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill (ERVK) for Meharry ...