# Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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As chair of the United Nations Human Rights Commission's drafting committee, Roosevelt helped guide negotiation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948. The document was a collective international achievement shaped by delegates from several legal and cultural traditions.

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