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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: OTTAWA

2007-0111

Enregistrement sonore

2 of 2

1998

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

producer/interviewer, Bob Carty

Interview with John Hobbins, assistant director of libraries at McGill University and John Humphrey’s literary executor. Hobbins speaks of the reasons why Humphrey remains little known or appreciated by Canadians and the Canadian government; his "fears" of collective rights; Humphrey’s childhood including the loss of his parents, his experience as an orphan and being teased because of his handicap; his university studies; writing the first draft of the Declaration of Human Rights; Canada’s opposition to the declaration; René Cassin, member of the French delegation, and his involvement with the Human Rights Commission, and nomination for the Nobel Prize in 1968; the assumption that Cassin had written the first draft of the declaration; the realization that the first draft was written by Humphrey; attempts by the French delegation to keep the true author of the first draft a secret; and Humphrey’s contribution to the world. <1h 31mn>

English

82~83

Libre

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Under copyright.

Copyright owner: CBC, 1998.

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