Word: cassin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rene Cassin, LL.D., co-founder of UNESCO and principal author of the Declaration of Human Rights...
With his prophetlike beard, clear eyes, ever-ready smile and imposing stature, this year's Nobel Peace Prizewinner really looks the part. René Cassin, 81, noted French jurist, was a chief architect of the United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that defines the basic rights of all mankind. Pleased as he is with the prize and the progress that has been made in human rights, Cassin is still very much the judicial pragmatist. "Peace is still distant," he notes, "and much remains to be done. Men of good will do not exist everywhere...
...original drafters) elected by the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, but usually it hears cases with seven judges-one from the country involved, six drawn by lot. Ironically, the drawing in all three of the court's cases has resulted in the choice of Judge Rene Cassin as court president-a Frenchman, representing a country that recognizes neither the commission nor the court...