Rene Cassin was a French jurist who served on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights under Eleanor Roosevelt's chairmanship, doing much of the detailed work of revising and editing the text into its final form, a contribution some fellow drafters have disputed the extent of. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968, twenty years after the Declaration's adoption, arguing in his acceptance speech that state sovereignty could no longer be treated as exclusive where individual rights were concerned.
Facts
Birth Year1887 is the birth year given in this atlas's own existing biographical source, which places his birth in Bayonne, France, and is independently corroborated by Britannica's own Rene Cassin entry and by the Nobel Prize organisation's own biographical page for his 1968 Peace Prize. Classification
Political RoleMember of the Constitutional Council 1 Connections
Drafted
Source Drafters of the Declaration (UN)
Sources
1. René Cassin (Wikipedia)
2. Rene Cassin (EBSCO Research Starters)
EBSCO Information ServicesQuote
his work in revising and editing the declaration was vital, though the significance of Cassin's role in the actual composition of the document has been contested by some of those who were also present.
Drafters of the Declaration (UN)
United NationsQuote
Rene Cassin (France), Member of the Commission on Human Rights.
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