Isabel Sánchez de Urdaneta

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Isabel Sánchez de Urdaneta was a Venezuelan politician and women's rights activist in the mid-20th century.

Life

Isabel Sánchez de Urdaneta was a teacher and established early childhood education institutions in Venezuela before she and her husband moved to Washington, DC , where he became an economic attaché at the Venezuelan embassy.

In 1945 she took part as a delegate at the San Francisco Conference, which formulated the UN Charter . In 1946 she was the representative of her country at the Inter-American Commission of Women of the Organization of American States and in 1947 a delegate at the First Inter-American Women's Congress .

Also in 1947 she was a founding member of the UN Women's Rights Commission , which made major contributions to the 1948 UN Charter of Human Rights .

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  1. ↑ Jane Eads: Feminists Appeal to UN . In: The Rhinelander Daily News . Rhinelander, Wisconsin December 7, 1946, pp. 4 ( newspapers.com [accessed June 24, 2015]).
  2. ↑ Patricia Di Giorgio, Lili Li-Luo Lim: Women and the UN: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Retrieved July 24, 2015
  3. ^ Women of the Americas. In: Mocavo. Inter-American Commission on Women, December 1946, accessed July 24, 2015 .
  4. ^ Francesca Miller: Latin American women and the search for social justice. University Press of New England (Ed.). Hanover 1991, ISBN 0-87451-557-2 , p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Sánchez de Urdaneta, Isabel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan women's rights activist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century