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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 Judge Ronald St. John MacDonald, judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in respect of Liechtenstein, professor at the University of Toronto specializing in international law and human rights. Subjects discussed include: MacDonald’s connection to John Humphrey; Humphrey’s studies at McGill University; Humphrey’s sympathetic nature; the importance of the universal declaration of human rights; the development of Humphrey’s social ideals; Humphrey’s intellectual capacity; meeting, proposing to and losing his first wife; drafting the declaration of human rights; Rene Cassin’s accreditation as author of the first draft of the declaration; and Humphrey’s third career in the human rights debate it Canada. <77mn>

English

84~85

Libre

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

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Copyright owner: CBC, 1998.

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