Egon Schwelb
Egon Schwelb · Civil Rights & Human Rights
Deputy director of the UN Division of Human Rights who helped shape early UN human-rights instruments and the machinery behind the Universal Declaration.
1899, Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) — 1979, USA
Prague; London; New York (United Nations)
Egon Schwelb is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Deputy director of the UN Division of Human Rights who helped shape early UN human-rights instruments and the machinery behind the Universal Declaration.
Egon Schwelb was a Czech Jewish jurist who, forced to flee the Nazis, became deputy director of the UN Division of Human Rights. As John Humphrey's deputy he helped shape the early machinery behind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international human-rights system. His scholarship became a foundation for the field of international human-rights law.
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Deputy director of the UN Division of Human Rights who helped shape early UN human-rights instruments and the machinery behind the Universal Declaration.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Schwelb
