Eleanor Roosevelt, John Humphrey and Canadian opposition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: looking back on the 50th anniversary of UNDHR

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Title:	Eleanor Roosevelt, John Humphrey and Canadian opposition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: looking back on the 50th anniversary of UNDHR
Source:	International Journal, v.53(2) Spr’98 pg 325-342
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Year:	1998
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Keywords:	Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, employment, equality before the law, gender equality, human rights, movement and residency, non-discrimination, social security, United Nations, health, politics, civil and political rights, tolerance, security, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, education, housing, right to privacy, minority rights, self-determination, standard of living, liberty, family, assembly and association, freedom of thought
Abstract:	As its fiftieth anniversary approaches, it would be natural to think that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which Eleanor Roosevelt called the Magna Carta of Mankind and Alexander Solzhenitsyn considered one of the United Nations’ greatest achievements, was always well-received and supported in Canada. And not simply because Canadians have a reputation as relatively tolerant supporters of the United Nations and take pride in their human rights record, but also because one of the declaration’s principal architects and advocates was a Canadian. John Peters Humphrey was the first director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights. At the request of the executive of the Human Rights Commission (Eleanor Roosevelt, P.C. Chang, and Charles Malik), early in 1947 he prepared the first drafts of the Universal Declaration.(f.1) During its early years, however, the declaration was greeted with considerable hostility by the majority of mainstream forces in Canada.
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