Hansa Mehta - Human Rights with Human Appeal Dhru, Kelly Amal Author aut Text xx# 2024 Verfassungsblog 2024-11-12 eng
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 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 Dhru, Kelly Amal Feminist Gender Human Rights India India Indian Constitutionalism Universal Declaration of Human Rights Women Women rights Human Rights India 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/hansa-mehta/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/260f18820fd63fd6 241112 10.59704/260f18820fd63fd6 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)