Document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its third session on 10 December 1948. Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the committee that drafted it and our image shows her holding the Spanish language version.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Human Rights tree
Tulip Tree Planted 1998 to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing by the Un...
Other Subjects
Ronald William Godfrey Jones, B.E.M.
Footballer. A serving soldier n WW2, he was taken prisoner and sent to a camp in Italy. He volunteered to be an engineer, but found himself being sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. Here he witne...
1 memorial
Robert Owen
Socialist and philanthropist, father of the Co-operative movement. Born Wales. Learned the fabric trade and in 1784 was in London working for a retailer. But he quickly moved to Manchester where he...
Person, Industry, Paranormal, Social Welfare, Scotland, USA, Wales
1 memorial
Metropolitan Benefit Societies Asylum
The MBSA was created by John Christopher Bowles to 'afford an asylum for the reception of aged and infirm members of Friendly Societies' who lived in or near London. Patrons were Queen Victoria an...
1 memorial
Commissioners of Sewers
The City of London was well in advance of other parts of London when it came to sewerage.
1 memorial
West Hackney Almshouses / Cooke's Rents
Mainly from British History Online we've learnt the following: In 1740 Thomas Cooke, a director of the Bank of England, built almshouses, Cooke’s Rents, for 8 poor families with small children, and...
1 memorial