Webmaster's comment :  The play seems to be an interesting and low budget idea for spicing up any UDHR60 celebration event . I  suspect that it would be possible to obtain the text of the play by contacting the organizers of the UK event.  I can imagine that an amateur theater in Connecticut could perform the play. Just an idea.

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Charles Malik: "My God, Eleanor, you're not here for the Human Rights Committee, surely. Don't for a moment think they're doing anything spectacular today!

Eleanor Roosevelt: "Dear Charles, you're being too hard. They are taking important decisions but things are so different now. It doesn't help when John Dulles says that the Declaration we put together was America's Sermon on the Mount - and then aims it at the Soviets."

An event to celebrate 60th Anniversary of UDHR was held in London on Friday 4 July 2008.  It was organised by the Westminster Branch of the UK United Nations Association.

The event opened with a piano recital by the Czech pianist, Libor Novacek, who, himself, had witnessed the changes in his native country when it, again, became independent.

There followed a short play How the Universal Declaration was won which chronicled the obstacles which has to be overcome in the build-up to the adoption of the Declaration by the General Assembly.

Watch a slideshow from the play

How the Universal Declaration was won
An imaginary meeting at the United Nations in New York in 1953

Synopsis: Eleanor Roosevelt (US) (Kate Harper); Rene Cassin (France) (Terry Booth); Charles Malik (Lebanon) (Andrew Bicknell); P C Chang (China) (Nigel Pegram); and John Peters Humphrey of the UN Secretariat (Canada) (John Peters) were central to the adoption in Paris in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). It did not have the teeth they had originally hoped for and they worked on with others to ‘finish the job’. But this was to take decades.

The Connecticut Coalition for Human Rights is established with the overall objective to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights(UDHR) December 2008, by using the months ahead to work with many social-issue groups to educate people in CT on Human Rights as enshrined in the UDHR and to end the year with a conference on how the United States measures up to the UDHR.

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On December 10, 2008, the world will celebrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60th anniversary. Human Rights Coalition from New Haven, CT in the United States, plans to form an international coalition to promote actions that would increase knowledge of UDHR and advance respect for human rights both in USA and abroad.

This web site is designed to support the Coalition's work, and will be maintained as a resource for all those who want to join in the ongoing struggle for human rights.

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