- Series
- Assembly for Human Rights: Montreal
- Air Date
- 1968-11-08
- Duration
- 00:29:54
- Episode Description
- This program focuses on women's rights, including such specific issues as voting privileges, employment and working conditions, education, and maternity and childcare rights. Speakers: Helvi Sipila, delegate of the UN Commission on the Status of Women; Sir H.O.B. Wooding, Court of Appeals, Trinidad and Tobago; Justice Haim H. Cohn, Israel Supreme Court; and Manouchehr Ganji, human rights activist and former minister of education of Iran.
- Series Description
- This special series offers highlights of a 1968 international gathering held in Montreal, Quebec, bringing together some 80 unofficial delegates and observers from all parts of the world. The assembly was presented in connection with the current International Year of Human Rights declared by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).
- Subject(s)
- Creator(s)
- WHA (Radio station : Madison, Wis.) (Producer)University of Wisconsin (Producer)
- Contributors
- Sipilä, Helvi (Speaker)Ganji, Manouchehr (Speaker)Cohn, Haim Hermann, 1911-2002 (Speaker)
- Genre(s)
- Geographic Region(s)
- regions
- Time Period
- 1961-1970
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