| "Although the declaration of Human Rights is an International document, it was created at the urging and under the direction of Eleanor Roosevelt. After her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, President Truman appointed her as a delegate to the United Nations. She was assigned to the Humanitarian Committee, which was without an agenda and virtually nonexistent at that point. Under her guidance, the committee drafted The Universal Declaration of Human rights, and managed to get it adopted without opposition by the General Assembly in 1948. " |
