Defending the rights
of generations to come …
Photo gallery prepared by Evelina Rioukhina and Oleksandr Svirchevskyy
Mr. Georges Day, UN Radio; Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt,
Chairman, UN Commission on Human Rights (USA);
Professor René Cassin, Representative of France to the
Commission, radio roundtable discussion on
International Bill of Rights.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt with the UDHR.
“Individual freedom of thought and conscience, to hold
and change beliefs, is an absolute and sacred right”
The Commission Chairman, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt (USA)
with the USSR representative on the body,
Mr. Alexander Pavlov.
Mr. Benjamin Cohen, Assistant SG for UN DPI;
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Chairman of UN Commission on
Human Rights; Mr. Henry Laugier, Assistant SG UN DESA;
Dr. P.C. Chang of China, First Vice-Chairman of
Commission; and Mr. Charles Malik of Lebanon,
Rapporteur.
Mrs. Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner
for
Human Rights (1997–2002) and Mr. Kofi Annan,
UN Secretary-General (1997–2007).
Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights (2002–2003) during the mission to Angola.
René Cassin at the Place des Nation –
Mrs. Micheline Calmy-Rey, the President of the Swiss
Confederation (in 2007) and
Mr. Sergei Ordzhonikidze,
the Director-General of the UNOG.
Mrs. Navanethem Pillay, the UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights (since July 2008) and Mr. Ban Ki-moon,
Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Children of the United Nations International Nursery School look at a poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
