How Did Eleanor Roosevelt Have To Do After All Have Universal Human Rights

Korina Chamberlain

J. Hoseley

AP U.S. Government

4 December 2014

Eleanor Roosevelt Unfortunately, injustice is dominant in the world. While people want to be treated fairly, greed and power get in the way of perfect justice and equality.

After World War 2, major countries of the world created the United Nations to ensure that similar, horrible events that had already occurred would never repeat (“The Universal Declaration”). President Harry Truman appointed well-known and respected Eleanor Roosevelt as a representative to the first meeting of the new organization. She was an essential part of the session because she was a woman in a government position, something that was very rarely seen at the time. As chairman, she saw that the Declaration of Human Rights was to be passed on December 10, 1948 and built a strong foundation for human rights ("Where Do Human Rights Begin?“):

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are

When rules are set about everywhere a person goes, it seems that their whole world is setting too high a standard for them. Those rules and restrictions take away opportunities for that person to freely express themselves, wherever life takes them. A home or workplace might seem like a grain of salt compared to the planet that Earth is, but to the individual, that place is their world. Without freedom, equality, and order in the home, the same three principles won’t mean much to the rest of the world. Throughout history, people have been denied opportunities with the justification that a single characteristic of their identity doesn’t line up with the majority, and I find that