Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt initiated the human rights declaration. She was the first president of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations which drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She said: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations.
It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.
Refugees
In the 40-ies, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled Palestine during the Israeli independence war. They fled to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Gaza and the Westbank.
In 1949 UNWRA was established for the Palestinian refugees, the first huge refugee population after WW2.
Today, some 7 million people are registered as Palestine refugees without Israel accepting them to return home. Read more about the refugees on the website of the Palestinian human rights organsiations al Haq and Badil.
Refugees, 1967. Koopman and Zagt. Still from the documentary Censored Voices.