Embassy Hosts U.S Speaker on Eleanor Roosevelt and the Battle to Create the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

December 9-10, 2008

Dr. Allida Black

Embassy Buenos Aires hosts U.S. Speaker Dr. Allida Black, Project Director and Editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, and Professor of History and of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University, for a two-day visit to Buenos Aires and La Plata to discuss the role that Eleanor Roosevelt played in drafting the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. 

Dr. Black will participate in a homage to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to be hosted by Ambassador Wayne and Dr. María José Lubertino, President of the INADI, National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism.  In addition she will lecture at the Argentine Council on International Relations on the Challenges on Human Rights for the Obama Administration.  Dr. Black will also make presentations in La Plata and one of her talks will be viewed by video conference in the city of Cordoba and in Quito, Ecuador.

This program is organized by the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires with the collaboration of the Argentine American Dialogue Foundation; the Argentine Council on International Relations; the Pro-Humanae Vitae Foundation; the Center of Advanced Studies at the National University of Córdoba; the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Quito, Ecuador; and the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism.