JOHN HUMPHREY'S SCHOOLDAYS: THE INFLUENCE OF SCHOOL EXPERIENCE ON THE CANADIAN WHO DRAFTED THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

John Peters Humphrey prepared the first draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and was, for decades, one of the world's premier human rights advocates and activists.One of the great strengths of the Declaration was the decision to include social/economic rights, in addition to the more traditional civil/political ones, a duality that Humphrey had created in the first draft.Humphrey's difficult early life had given him unusual insights into suffering, powerlessness and the nature of human dignity.After having one arm amputated when he was 6 and being orphaned when he was 11, he was faced with a new challenge when he was sent away to a boarding school in Rothesay, N.B., where he spent four unhappy years.This paper draws on a variety of sources, including letters and memoirs, to examine the influence of his school experience on his later life and work, especially as it affected his draft of the Declaration.RSUM.John Peters Humphrey a rdig la premire version de la Dclaration universelle des droits de l'homme et pendant des dizaines d'annes a t l'un des plus grands dfenseurs et activistes des droits de l'homme dans le monde.L'une des grandes innovations de la Dclaration est la dcision d'y incorporer les droits sociaux et conomiques, en plus des droits civils et politiques plus traditionnels, dualit introduite par Humphrey dans cette premire version.Les premires annes difficiles de la vie de Humphrey lui ont donn une apprhension inhabituelle des souffrances, de l'impuissance et de la nature de la dignit humaine.Amput d'un bras l'ge de six ans, puis orphelin l'ge de onze ans, Humphrey a d faire face un nouveau dfi de taille lorsqu'on l'a envoy en pensionnat Rothesay (N.B.), o il a pass quatre annes difficiles.Cet article s'inspire de diverses sources, notamment de lettres et mmoires, pour analyser l'impact de sa scolarit sur sa vie et sa profession ainsi que son influence sur la premire version de la Dclaration.John Peters Humphrey (1905Humphrey ( -1995) ) is now recognized as one of the great human rights advocates and activists of the twentieth century.Yet Humphrey's achievements were little known until recently.The main purpose of this article is to focus closely on his early years and, in particular, to examine the influence school experience had on his later development.First, however, it is necessary to trace his adult career as an advocate for individual and collective human rights.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.