nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/260f18820fd63fd6 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 241112s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/260f18820fd63fd6 doi eng 342 23 Dhru, Kelly Amal Author aut Hansa Mehta - Human Rights with Human Appeal Dhru, Kelly Amal Verfassungsblog 2024-11-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Imagine if the very first article of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, 1948, referred “all men”, rather than “all human beings”, and asked us all to act in the spirit of “brotherhood”. Thankfully, that is not how it reads, and for this, credit is due to an Indian woman: Hansa Mehta, whose contribution UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres recognized in his speech celebrating 70 years of the UDHR when he said: “without her, we would literally be speaking of Rights of Man rather than Human Rights.” CC BY-SA 4.0 Feminist Gender Human Rights India India Indian Constitutionalism Universal Declaration of Human Rights Women Women rights (DE-588)10298350-1 gnd Human Rights (DE-588)1236319109 gnd India Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/hansa-mehta/ raw object