Jeudakija Uralawa

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Jeudakija Uralawa ( Belarusian Еўдакія Уралава ) was a Belarusian politician and diplomat who acted on the international stage in the 1940s .

Life and political work

Jeudakija I. Uralawa trained as a history teacher and probably worked as an executive in the Ministry of Education before her time at the UN.

In 1947 she was a founding member and rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW). In this function she played a key role in the formulation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . Her main concern was equal pay for men and women

Uralawa emphasized: “ The question of women's political, economic and social rights is always a good measure of democratic rights in a country. "

Thanks to her commitment, Article 23 states: “Everyone, without distinction, has the right to equal pay for equal work.” Together with Fryderyka Kalinowska from Poland and Elizavieta Popova from the USSR , she emphasized the rights of people living in countries with restricted Live sovereignty. (Article 2).

Eleanor Roosevelt , the head of the UN Human Rights Commission , emphasized the pleasant atmosphere in the cooperation in her diary entries from this time.

In 1948 she visited the United States as a minister of her country.

further reading

  • Rebecca Adami, Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Routledge . 2018, ISBN 978-0-429-79552-7
  • Jain, Devaki, Women, Development, and the UN . Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-253-21819-3
  • Alston, Phillip, The United Nations and human rights: a critical appraisal . New York, Oxford University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-19-826001-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Davaki Jain: Women, Development and the UN-A sixty-year quest for equality and justice , preface by Amartya Sen, Indiana University Pres, Bloomington, 2005, ISBN 0-253-34697-5
  2. ↑ Johannes Morsink: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of Religion . University of Missouri Press, May 15, 2017, ISBN 978-0-8262-2084-4
  3. ↑ http://www.un.org/en/events/humanrightsday/women-who-shaped-the-universal-declaration.shtml UN website on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  4. ↑ https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers//documents/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1946&_f=md000262 From the memoirs of Eleonore Roosevelt from 1946
  5. ↑ https://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19480205-01.2.57 The Stanford Daily , Volume 112, Issue 72, February 5, 1948
personal data
SURNAME Uralawa, Jeudakija
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uralawa, Jeudakija Ilyinichna (full name); Уралава, Еўдакія Ільінічна (Belarusian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century