![]() ![]() She regarded its adoption as her greatest achievement. Now at last, meeting in the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, representatives of the world’s nations had reached an agreement. ![]() Roosevelt, had not lived to see concluded. delegate to the nascent international body, she had chaired the commission that drafted the declaration and led the effort to see it ratified in the wake of the most brutally destructive conflict the world had ever seen-a war her husband, President Franklin D. on December 10, 1948, after nearly three years of intense deliberation and maneuvering, the United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt what Eleanor Roosevelt envisioned as a Magna Carta for a new age: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ![]()
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