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Anchored in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Pointing the Way for CSW65<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Secretary-General\u2019s report<\/a>1<\/a><\/sup> offering recommendations to the 65th<\/sup> session of the Commission on the Status of Women, the first document listed in which he \u201canchors the theme\u201d is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its creation involved one of history\u2019s most inspiring examples of what this year\u2019s theme calls \u201cwomen\u2019s full and effective participation and decision-making in public life\u201d: the pivotal role of Eleanor Roosevelt and her genius in leading the creation of what has been called \u201cthe gold standard\u201d for \u201cthe moral imagination\u201d of the world.<\/a>2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Person of Mrs. Roosevelt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the recently widowed Mrs. Roosevelt was asked by President Truman to serve on the US delegation to the opening session in London of the newly organized United Nations, she replied, \u201cOh, no! It would be impossible! How could I be a delegate to help organize the United Nations when I have no background or experience in international meetings?\u201d<\/a>3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The President persisted, Eleanor relented, and so effective was her service that the United Nations soon invited her to go to Geneva to help organize the Human Rights Commission, which unanimously elected her as chairperson. Its daunting task was to establish \u201csomething never before undertaken by the nations of the world: a declaration of standards by which essential and pre-existing rights of individuals could be agreed upon as universal.\u201d<\/a>4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the next two years of seemingly endless meetings, negotiations, and amendments, Eleanor guided the creation of the Declaration and then offered a vision of the future at its adoption in December 1948. \u201cWe stand today at the threshold of a great event, both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind\u2026. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta of all men everywhere.\u201d<\/a>5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her words have proven prophetic. As \u201cthe first document of an ethical sort that organized humanity has ever adopted,\u201d<\/a>6<\/a><\/sup> the Declaration has become \u201ca moral guiding star\u201d<\/a>7<\/a><\/sup> and \u201cset the standard for international discussion and action on human rights.\u201d<\/a>8<\/a><\/sup> In fact, \u201cthe most impressive advances in human rights,\u201d notes Professor Mary Ann Glendon, \u201cowe more to the moral beacon of the Declaration than to the many covenants and treaties that are now in force.\u201d<\/a>9<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the Declaration became a reality at all owes much to Eleanor\u2019s \u201cboundless energy and infectious enthusiasm.\u201d<\/a>10<\/a><\/sup> Years later when Charles Malik, one of the chief drafters, reflected on the process that produced it, he observed, \u201cThe United States, besides championing the traditional American values, especially in respect of the supreme worth of the individual, contributed, in the person of Mrs. Roosevelt, dignity, authority and prestige.\u201d<\/a>11<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feminine Genius and the Family<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eleanor\u2019s story has been called that \u201cof a determined woman who willed herself to become a voice for the voiceless, a fighter for freedom, and a tribune for the nobility of America\u2019s true values.\u201d<\/a>12<\/a><\/sup> Her remarkable leadership role in producing the Declaration illustrates the \u201cfeminine genius\u201d to which Pope John Paul II referred in 1995 on the eve of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.<\/a>13<\/a><\/sup> Two decades later when Archbishop Bernardito Auza addressed the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York, he offered an invitation whose relevance increases with time: \u201cJohn Paul II referred to this special brilliance\u00a0of women in caring for the intrinsic\u00a0dignity of everyone and for nurturing others\u2019 gifts as the \u2018feminine genius.\u2019 Today we are here to ponder that feminine genius, to celebrate it, to thank God for it, and to thank and praise women for it.”<\/a>14<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pondering that feminine genius today, the example of Eleanor Roosevelt demonstrates not only the power that can be unleashed by women\u2019s full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, but also the synergy that can arise from such participation. Eleanor was, according to Professor Glendon, one of \u201cfour in particular [who] played crucial roles\u201d in drafting the Declaration.<\/a>15<\/a><\/sup> And \u201cthough they differed on many points, [they] were as one in their belief in the priority of culture\u201d and \u201cthe \u2018small places\u2019 where people first learn about their rights and how to exercise them responsibly.\u201d As Eleanor expressed, \u201cWhere, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home\u2014so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.\u201d<\/a>16<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ren\u00e9 Cassin of France similarly understood that \u201cthe human being was above all a social being,\u201d and while \u201cfreedom of individual conscience was inviolable,\u201d yet \u201cindividual rights were embodied in groups, without which they could not exist.\u201d<\/a>17<\/a> <\/sup>The Confucian tradition of China\u2019s Peng-chun Chang recognized \u201cthe individual as a vitally integrated element within a larger familial, social, political, and cosmic whole\u201d in which \u201cgoodness is something that can be manifested only in relation to other persons, in a community of fellow human beings.\u201d<\/a>18<\/a> <\/sup>And Lebanese delegate Charles Malik knew that of all the social groups, only \u201cthe family deriving from marriage is the natural and fundamental group unit of society\u201d and \u201cis endowed by the Creator with inalienable rights,\u201d making it \u201cthe cradle of all human rights and liberties.\u201d<\/a>19<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From such combined genius came article 16(3), which stands out for its acknowledgment of \u201cthe only right in the Declaration that specifically devolves to a group rather than an individual,\u201d<\/a>20<\/sup> <\/a>a group recognized as the foundation of civilization itself: \u201cThe family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.\u201d Elaborating on the \u201cnatural family,\u201d Pope Francis referred to the \u201ccomplementarity between man and woman\u201d which \u201clies at the foundation of marriage and the family\u201d and creates the optimum environment \u201cfor the child\u2019s growth and emotional development,\u201d resulting in \u201ca unique, natural, fundamental and beautiful good for people, families, communities and societies.\u201d<\/a>21<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the words of Michael Novak, \u201cthe roles of a father and a mother, and of children with respect to them, is the absolutely critical center of social force.\u201d<\/a>22<\/a> <\/sup>Even so, one parental role stands out as indispensable. \u201cMothers play a critical role in the family,\u201d stated Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. \u201cThe mother-child relationship is vital for the healthy development of children\u2026. We face multiple challenges in our changing world, but one factor remains constant: the timeless importance of mothers and their invaluable contribution to raising the next generation.\u201d<\/a>23<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the important work of CSW65 proceeds, we urge that it truly be anchored in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by honoring women\u2019s unique feminine genius, including and especially her vital role in society\u2019s natural and fundamental group unit, the family.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Organization for the Family
Center for Family and Human Rights
United Families International
CitizenGo, Spain
Latin American Alliance for the Family
Universal Peace Federation
Family Policy Institute, South Africa
Novae Terrae Foundation, Italy
Real Women of Canada
Provive, Venezuela
Institute for Family Policy, Spain
FamilyPolicy.RU Advocacy Group, Russia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>1.<\/a> Report of the Secretary-General, 21 December 2020, \u201cWomen\u2019s full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.\u201d https:\/\/undocs.org\/E\/CN.6\/2021\/3<\/a>.\u00a0
<\/a>2.<\/a> Seamus Heaney, \u201cHuman Rights, Poetic Redress,\u201d Irish Times<\/em>, March 15, 2008, https:\/\/irishtimes.com\/news\/human-rights-poetic-redress-1.903757<\/a>.
<\/a>3.<\/a> Elliott Roosevelt and James Brough, Mother R: Eleanor Roosevelt\u2019s Untold Story <\/em>(New York: G.P. Putnam\u2019s Sons, 1977), 68-69.
<\/a>4.<\/a> David Michaelis, Eleanor<\/em> (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020), 457.
<\/a>5.<\/a> Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 9, 1948, available at https:\/\/erpapers.columbian.gwu.edu\/statement-united-nations-general-assembly-universal-declaration-human-rights-1948<\/a>.
<\/a>6.<\/a> Ren\u00e9 Cassin, Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1968, https:\/\/nobelprize.org\/prizes\/peace\/1968\/cassin\/lecture<\/a>.
<\/a>7.<\/a> Hans Ingvar Roth, P. C. Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights <\/em>(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), 135.
<\/a>8.<\/a> Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History <\/em>(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007), 205.
<\/a>9.<\/a> Mary Ann Glendon, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights <\/em>(New York: Random House, 2001), 236.
<\/a>10.<\/a> Johannes Morsink, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent <\/em>(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 32. Eleanor herself would later reflect, \u201cI had really only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and self-discipline.\u201d Roosevelt and Brough, 105.\u00a0
<\/a>11.<\/a> Habib C. Malik, ed., The Challenge of Human Rights: Charles Malik and the Universal Declaration <\/em>(Oxford: Charles Malik Foundation: Centre for Lebanese Studies, 2000), 156.
<\/a>12.<\/a> Cover endorsement by Walter Isaacson of Michaelis, Eleanor<\/em>.
<\/a>13.<\/a> \u201cLetter of Pope John Paul II to Women,\u201d https:\/\/vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/letters\/1995\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_let_29061995_women.html<\/a>.
<\/a>14.<\/a> H.E. Archbishop Bernardito Auza, \u201cWomen Promoting Human Dignity,\u201d https:\/\/holyseemission.org\/contents\/\/statements\/55e34d37d39447.15475237.php<\/a>.
<\/a>15.<\/a> \u201cAmong the Declaration\u2019s framers, four in particular played crucial roles: Peng-chun Chang, the Chinese philosopher, diplomat, and playwright who was adept at translating across cultural divides; Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ren\u00e9 Cassin, the legal genius of the Free French, who transformed what might have been a mere list or \u2018bill\u2019 of rights into a geodesic dome of interlocking principles; Charles Malik, existentialist philosopher turned master diplomat, a student of Alfred North Whitehead and Martin Heidegger, who steered the Declaration to adoption by the UN General Assembly in the tense cold war atmosphere of 1948; and Eleanor Roosevelt, whose prestige and personal qualities enabled her to influence key decisions of the country that had emerged from the war as the most powerful nation in the world. Chang, Cassin, Malik, and Roosevelt were the right people at the right time. But for the unique gifts of each of these four, the Declaration might never have seen the light of day.\u201d Glendon, xx-xxi.
<\/a>16.<\/a> Glendon, 239-240.
<\/a>17.<\/a> Jay Winter and Antoine Prost, Ren\u00e9 Cassin and Human Rights: From the Great War to the Universal Declaration <\/em>(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 244.
<\/a>18.<\/a> Daniel K. Gardner, The Four Books: The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition <\/em>(Indianapolis, Indiana: Hacket Publishing Company, 2007), 139.
<\/a>19.<\/a> Morsink, 254.\u00a0
<\/a>20.<\/a> Glenn Mitoma, \u201cCharles H. Malik and Human Rights: Notes on a Biography,\u201d Biography <\/em>33.1 (Winter 2010), 226.
<\/a>21.<\/a> \u201cAddress of His Holiness Pope Francis to Participants in the International Colloquium on the Complementarity Between Man and Woman,\u201d 17 November 2014, https:\/\/vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/speeches\/2014\/november\/documents\/papa-francesco_20141117_congregazione-dottrina-fede.html<\/a>.
<\/a>22.<\/a> Michael Novak, \u201cThe Family out of Favor,\u201d\u00a0Harper\u2019s Magazine<\/em> 252, no. 1511 (1 April 1976): 38.
<\/a>23.<\/a> \u201c\u2018Timeless Importance of Mothers\u2019 One Constant in Changing World Facing Multiple Challenges, Says Secretary-General in Message on Day of Families,\u201d 6 May 2009, https:\/\/un.org\/press\/en\/2009\/sgsm12227.doc.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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His writings include the World Family Declaration and articles in The Natural Family: An International Journal of Research and Policy and Ave Maria International Law Journal. After earning MBA and JD degrees from Brigham Young University, he practiced banking law and served as director of content of the original Law.com.","url":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/author\/dclarkifamnews-com"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59935"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59990,"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59935\/revisions\/59990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}