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
Mr John Carr
Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
1 memorial
Organ donors
From 2013 Organ Donation news item: "In the last ten years, around 10,000 people have been honoured {with the St John award} and are estimated to have made more than 25,000 organ transplants possi...
1 memorial
Sir Edwin Chadwick
Born Lancashire but brought up in London. A friend of Jeremy Bentham, Bentham dying in his arms. Chadwick's major achievement was the 1842 publication of the Poor Law Commissioners' "Report on the ...
1 memorial
Pensions campaign
From British History On-line “…. the campaign which culminated in the Old Age Pensions Act of 1908 was begun at a conference held there {Browning Hall - see Robert Browning Settlement} by Charles ...
1 memorial
Thomas Stephen Dulley
Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862. Thomas Stephen Dulley was born in 1821 in Putney, the fifth of the eleven children of Henry Dulley (1771-1846) and Tomzon Dicker Dulley née Stephens...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare
1 memorial
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