Conversations about women at the origins of the United Nations and the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Players load only when you press play.
Rebecca Adami talks with INVISIHIST about the women who played critical roles in establishing core United Nations documents: largely unseen yet pivotal histories of women's involvement, debates and contributions to the emerging international order after the war, with particular attention to women from the Global South in articulating how we define and operationalise human rights.
Dr Adami describes the situation after the Second World War and how the rights of women came to be included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She introduces prominent non-Western women behind the negotiations at the San Francisco Conference and in drafting the Declaration, including Hansa Jivraj Mehta and Lakshmi Menon from India, Minerva Bernardino from the Dominican Republic and Begum Shaista Ikramullah from Pakistan.
Only four women were among the 850 delegates who signed the UN Charter in June 1945. For UN Gender Focus, Paulina Greer spoke to three researchers who are uncovering women's contribution to the origins of the UN. Audio credit: Paulina Greer, UN News (25:20).
Ellen Chesler interviews Rebecca Adami and Fatima Sator, editor and co-author of Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights.
In Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Dr Rebecca Adami highlights the contributions of Latin American women delegates and other prominent non-Western women who took part in drafting the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
