Sara Basterrechea Ramirez
Sara Basterrechea Ramirez (born October 1, 1918 in Guatemala City , † after 1947) was a Guatemalan chemist, university professor and diplomat.
Life
Sara Basterrechea Ramirez was born in Guatemala City in 1918 to Francisco Basterrechea and Dolores Ramirez. She studied chemistry , received a scholarship to Smith College in Northampton , Massachusetts from 1943 to 1944. She was a professor of organic chemistry as the only female faculty member at the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala City , also a member of the Guatemalan Society de Ciencias Naturales y Farmacia .
Basterrechea Ramirez was a founding member of the UN Women's Rights Commission in 1947 , which made major contributions to the formulation of the UN Charter of Human Rights .
literature
- Morsink, Johannes: Women's Rights in the Universal Declaration . Human Rights Quarterly. 13 (2): 249, 1991
- Gaer, Felice: Women, international law and international institutions: The case of the United Nations , Women's Studies International Forum. 32 (1): 61, 2009
- Pietilä, Hilkka: The unfinished story of women and the United Nations , United Nations Non-governmental Liaison Service, New York, 2007
- Rebecca Adami: Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Routledge, 2018, ISBN 978-0-429-79552-7
Web links
- Photo of Sara Basterrechea Ramirez during the 5th meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women on February 12, 1947
- Start of the first UN General Assembly in London on February 5th, 1946
- UN website on the historical role of women on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 2018
swell
- ↑ a b https://prabook.com/web/sara.basterrechea/1114993 Biographical notes on prabook.com
- ↑ https://books.google.de/books?id=sQjqWx0ZgekC&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=Sara+Basterrechea+Ramirez&source=bl&ots=_yJ6_aGU_x&sig=niBExrEbJ6tTVdlG3T9TEHl5vUk&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjuk7Oqj83fAhWUiqYKHYNOBDEQ6AEwCXoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=Sara%20Basterrechea%20Ramirez&f=false Information on the academic career of Basterrechea Ramirez
- ^ Jain, Devaki: Women, development, and the UN: a sixty-year quest for equality and justice , Indiana University Press., Bloomington, 2005
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Basterrechea Ramirez, Sara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Guatemalan chemist, university professor and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guatemala City |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1947 |