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Rene Cassin

French Judge

Born: Oct 5, 1887

Died: Feb 20, 1976

Courage First Human Rights Political Rights War

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As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights. Rene Cassin

Life Work Rights Human Rights Every Society Economic Individual Participation Cultural List Human Social Declaration Certain Full Right Number Incorporated

As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general. Rene Cassin

Character Rights Beginning Human Rights Innovations About General Had Itself Role Commission Human Doubts Functions Consequence Vague

As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace. Rene Cassin

War Hope Peace World Honor First Enough Those Signal Tribute Allowed Shared Felt First World First World War Were Privileged Salvage Survivor Trying May Succeed Fortunate Who Deeply Here Last World War World War I

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal? Rene Cassin

Broken People Victory Promises Took Once Those Horrible Given Could Revealed How Years Camps Ordeal Form Spectacle Extermination

In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948. Rene Cassin

First Thirty Hundred Months Impassioned Adopted General General Assembly End Than Articles Submitted Discussion Often December Eighteen Form Which Less Assembly Prepared Elevated Draft

The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights. Rene Cassin

We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence. Rene Cassin

War Together World Men Statesmen Those Ourselves Prevent Had Attempting Recurrence Support Thus Understood Were Truly Led Order Organize Who Lessons Fought World War

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family. Rene Cassin

Family Courage Doctor Seen Military Admiration Civic Had Performed Doctor Who Passionate Friend Child Elderly Who Filled Acts

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