Isabel Sánchez de Urdaneta

Isabel Sánchez de Urdaneta was a Venezuelan stateswoman and feminist in the mid-twentieth century. She was a teacher and founder of kindergartens in Venezuela before she and her husband moved to Washington, D.C., where he took up a diplomatic position.[1] She served as a delegate to the San Francisco Conference when the UN Charter was drafted in 1945.[2] She was the 1946 Venezuelan delegate to the Inter-American Commission of Women[3] as well as the 1947 delegate to the Primer Congreso Interamericano de Mujeres (First Inter-American Congress of Women)[4] and delegate to the UN Commission on the Status of Women during the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[5]

References

  1. ^ Eads, Jane (7 December 1946). "Feminists Appeal to UN". Rhinelander, Wisconsin: The Rhinelander Daily News. p. 4. Retrieved 24 July 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ Di Giorgio, Patricia; Lim, Lili Li-Luo (1995). "Women and the UN: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" (PDF). Women's Intercultural Network. San Francisco, California: Women's Intercultural Network. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Women of the Americas". Mocavo. Inter-American Commission on Women. December 1946. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  4. ^ Miller, Francesca (1991). Latin American women and the search for social justice. Hanover: University Press of New England. p. 128. ISBN 0-87451-557-2. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  5. ^ https://www.routledge.com/Women-and-the-Universal-Declaration-of-Human-Rights/Adami/p/book/9780367622787


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