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The second volume includes Humphrey's diaries from 1950 to 1951 and documents a time when the Division of Human Rights focused on providing support for various UN bodies in the development of covenants on human rights and related topics.This was a period of significant changes in the Human Rights Division. Eleanor Roosevelt was replaced as chair of the of the Human Rights Commission and Humphrey's friend and immediate superior, Assistant Secretary-General Henri Laugier, resigned, foreshadowing a significant change in the attitude of the UN senior administration towards the human rights program. The Secretariat also got its first intimation of the anti-communist witch hunt that was to come the following year.
Book Information
ISBN 9780773514546
Author A. J. Hobbins
Format Hardback
Page Count 308
Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press
Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press
Book Information
ISBN 9780773514546
Author A. J. Hobbins
Format Hardback
Page Count 308
Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press
Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press
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