Concept    From 1948 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Categories: Social Welfare

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. 

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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...

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Pulford Street Site Committee

Pulford Street Site Committee

The Pulford Street Site Fund was responsible for raising the resources necessary, mainly from Westminster residents, with grants from the Ministry of Health and Westminster Council, to build the Ta...

Group, Social Welfare

2 memorials
Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association

Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association

Founded by Elizabeth Finn, now called Elizabeth Finn Care.

Group, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Mr H. Wilcox

Mr H. Wilcox

Administrator and Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.

Person, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Justice for Lai Dai Han

Justice for Lai Dai Han

This group campaigns for an independent UN-led investigation into allegations of widespread sexual violence by South Korean soldiers during the Vietnam War. The group commissioned the Mother and Ch...

Group, Gender Issues, Law, Social Welfare

1 memorial

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Charles Kingsley - WC1

Charles Kingsley - WC1

WC1, Bloomsbury Way, Kingsley Hotel

This bust on the ornate underbelly of the bow windows is now obscured by the glass awning above the front entrance of the hotel.  At the ...

1 subject commemorated
T. E. Collcutt

T. E. Collcutt

Architect. Born Thomas Edward Collcutt, in Jericho, Oxford. President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1906 to 1908. He designed the Imperial Institute building in Kensington, the ...

Person, Architecture, Theatre

1 memorial