Oral history interview with Margaret K. Bruce, 2003
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- Name
- Bruce, Margaret K (Interviewee)
- Jolly, Richard (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Margaret K. Bruce, 2003
- Abstract
- Family background, childhood and education, Girton College, Cambridge, 1949; Chatham House; Royal Institute of International Affairs; father's work at Rugby Day Continuation School; impressions of Germany in the early days of Hitler; United Nations, March 1946; work with Eleanor Roosevelt on Universal Declaration of Human Rights; women's rights; directed Status of Women Commission, 1962-1977; statu s of women and family law; effects of McCarthyism on the UN; sexual relationships between UN members; first International Conference on Human Rights; international politics in the late 1960s; first world women's conference, Mexico
- Collection Name
- United Nations intellectual history project (UNIHP)
- Subjects
- Women human rights workers; World politics--1945-1989; Women's rights; Human rights--International cooperation; Bruce, Margaret K; United Nations Officials and employees; United Nations. General Assembly; United Nations History; United Nations. Commission on the Status of Women; International Conference on Human Rights; Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2003
- Note (Biographical)
- Human Rights Activist
- Note
- Interviewed by Richard Jolly on October 25, 2003
- Note (Provenance)
- Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Gift, 2009
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 13683222
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-r1fd-q212
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.