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Original Articles

Reclaiming and rebuilding the history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Pages 437-448 | Published online: 25 Aug 2010

  • Laurent , Paul Gordon . 1998 . The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen , Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press .
  • Morsink , Johannes . 1999 . The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent , Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press .
  • Glendon , Mary Ann . 2001 . A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and aie Universal Declaration of Human Rights , New York : Random House .
  • Waltz , Susan . 2001 . 'Universalizing human rights: the role of small states in the construction of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights' . Human Rights Quarterly , 23 : 44 – 72 .
  • Burgers , J Herman . 1992 . 'The road to San Francisco: the revival of the human rights idea in the twentieth century' . Human Rights Quarterly , 14 : 477
  • Lauren . Evolution of International Human Rights , 75
  • Foot , Michael . 1995 . HG: The History of Mr Wells , Washington, DC : Counterpoint Publishers .
  • Burgers . 'Road to San Francisco' . Lauren, Evolution of Human Rights , 464 – 468 . 152 – 160 .
  • Blanche Weisen Cook . 1933-1938 . Eleanor Roosevelt , Vol. 2 , 243 – 247 . 304 – 334 . 443 – 444 . New York : Viking . 1999
  • Lauren, Evolution of International Human Rights, p. 141.
  • Ibid, p. 162.
  • Ibid, p. 165.
  • Ibid, p. 160.
  • Evans , Tony . 1996 . US Hegemony and the Project of Universal Human Rights , London : Macmillan .
  • Lauren, Evolution of International Human Rights, p. 167.
  • Jhabvala , Farrokh . 1997 . "The drafting of the human rights provisions of the UN Charter' . Netherlands International Law Review , 3 : 3
  • Lauren, Evolution of International Human Rights, pp 168169.
  • Ibid, p. 169.
  • Ibid, pp. 166, 331, n112.
  • Bennett , A LeRoy . 1995 . International Organizations: Principles and Issues , 50 Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall .
  • Burgers, 'Road to San Francisco', p. 475.
  • Jhabvala . 'Drafting of the human rights provisions' 1 – 31 . passim
  • Korey , William C . 1998 . NGOS and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Curious Grapevine , New York : St Martin's .
  • Ibid, pp 34-38.
  • Agi , Marc . 1979 . René Cassin: Fantassin des droits de l'homme , Paris : Pion .
  • Morsink, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, p. 29.
  • Glendon . A World Made New , 60 – 66 . 252 – 253 . Ibid. In a footnote Morsink traces some of the events and publicity that led to a widespread belief that Cassin provided the initial draft (p 343 n58). At a critical moment in the drafting process, René Cassin served as rapporteur of a small working group. In that role, he was charged to prepare a draft Declaration, based on an outline provided by the UN Secretariat. Some biographers later exaggerated his role at this juncture, and by displaying his handwritten text, the United Nations helped establish a myth of single authorship. Cassin did not exactly claim authorship, but late in life he did attribute to himself 'sole responsibility' for the initial draft,various notes on. See
  • Humphrey , John . 1984 . Human Rights and the United Nations: A Great Adventure , 32 Dobbs Ferry, NY : Transnational Publishers .
  • Charles Malik before the UN General Assembly session on 9 December 1948, United National General Assembly Official Records, Third Session, Part I, Plenary Session, 1948, p 858. Morsink's findings are reported in The Universal Declaration, p. 6. The American Law Institute was composed of jurists from all over the Western hemisphere, and was heavily influenced by Latin jurists. See Lauren, Evolution of International Human Rights, p. 158.
  • Morsink, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, p. 7.
  • Ibid, pp 8, 29. AJ Hobbins, archivist at McGiIl University and editor of Humphrey's papers and diaries, has facilitated scholarly review of the relevant Humphrey papers. Glendon, thus, is able to substantiate Mors ink's claim, and in appendices to A World Made New (pp 271 280) she provides texts of the 'Humphrey Draft' and the 'Cassin Draft' for ready comparison.
  • Morsink, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, pp 4 11, divides this first phase into five separate 'stages', which include three meetings of the Human Rights Commission and two meetings of its Drafting Committee.
  • Johnson , M Glen . 1987 . "The contributions of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt to the development of international protection for human rights' . Human Rights Quarterly , 9 : 19 – 48 . more recently, Glendon, A World Made New
  • Glendon, A World Made New, p. 206
  • Humphrey, Human Rights and the UN, p. 23
  • Davies , Richard O . 1993 . Defender of the Old Guard: John Bricker and American Politics , Columbus, OH : Ohio State University Press .
  • Tananbaum , Duane . 1988 . The Bricker Amendment Controversy. A Test of Eisenhower's Political Leadership , Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press .
  • Foreign Relations of the United States . 1952-1954 . Vol. III , 1550 – 1581 . Washington, DC : US Government Printing Office . 1979
  • Forsythe , David P . 1987 . Human Rights and US Foreign Policy , 1 – 23 . Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Presses .
  • Schoultz , Lars . 1981 . Human Rights and United States Policy toward Latin America , 168 – 266 . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press .
  • Goldstein , Judith and Keohane , Robert O , eds. 1993 . “ human rights policies in the United States and Western Europe' ” . In Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change , Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Kathryn Sikkink offers a comparison of the US and European approaches to human rights in 'The power of principled ideas
  • Morsink . Universal Declaration of Human Rights 116 – 119 . 24 Humphrey
  • Morsink, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, pp 130 134.
  • United Nations General Assembly Official Records, 3rd Session, Pt. I, 1948, Third Committee, pp 504, 515.
  • Morsink, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, pp 192 199.
  • UNGA Third Committee, p. 374
  • 1998 . Shaista Ikramullah, From Purdah to Parliament , London : Oxford University Press .
  • Morsink, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, p. 98
  • See Waltz, 'Universalizing human rights.'
  • Morsink, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, p. 8
  • Waltz , Susan . 2001 . 'Universal human rights: the Muslim contribution' . paper presented to the Association of Muslim Social Scientists . October 2001 , Dearborn, MI. The only diplomat to have participated in the UN Third Committee proceedings from start to finish (1948-66) was Jamil Baroody, representing Saudi Arabia
  • UNGA Plenary Session, p. 922

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