Isabel Sánchez de Urdaneta explained

Isabel Sánchez de Urdaneta was a Venezuelan stateswoman and feminist in the mid-twentieth century. She was a teacher and founder of kindergartens in Venezuela before she and her husband moved to Washington, D.C., where he took up a diplomatic position.[1] She served as a delegate to the San Francisco Conference when the UN Charter was drafted in 1945.[2] She was the 1946 Venezuelan delegate to the Inter-American Commission of Women[3] as well as the 1947 delegate to the Primer Congreso Interamericano de Mujeres (First Inter-American Congress of Women)[4] and delegate to the UN Commission on the Status of Women during the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[5]

Notes and References

  1. News: Eads. Jane. Feminists Appeal to UN. 24 July 2015. The Rhinelander Daily News. 7 December 1946. Rhinelander, Wisconsin. 4. Newspapers.com.
  2. Web site: Di Giorgio. Patricia. Lim. Lili Li-Luo. Women and the UN: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Women's Intercultural Network. Women's Intercultural Network. 24 July 2015. San Francisco, California. 16. 1995.
  3. Web site: Women of the Americas. Mocavo. Inter-American Commission on Women. 24 July 2015. December 1946.
  4. Book: Miller. Francesca. Latin American women and the search for social justice. 1991. University Press of New England. Hanover. 0-87451-557-2. 128. registration. 24 July 2015.
  5. https://www.routledge.com/Women-and-the-Universal-Declaration-of-Human-Rights/Adami/p/book/9780367622787

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