Oral history interview with Margaret K. Bruce, 2003

Biographical Note

Human Rights Activist

Scope and Contents

Family background, childhood and education, Girton College, Cambridge, 1949; Chatham House; Royal Institute of International Affairs; father's work at Rugby Day Continuation School; impressions of Germany in the early days of Hitler; United Nations, March 1946; work with Eleanor Roosevelt on Universal Declaration of Human Rights; women's rights; directed Status of Women Commission, 1962-1977; status of women and family law; effects of McCarthyism on the UN; sexual relationships between UN members; first International Conference on Human Rights; international politics in the late 1960s; first world women's conference, Mexico

Subjects

• Bruce, Margaret K.--Interviews.
• Human rights--International cooperation.
• International Conference on Human Rights.
• Interviews
• Jolly, Richard, interviewer.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United Nations--History--20th century.
• United Nations--Officials and employees--Interviews.
• United Nations. Commission on the Status of Women.
• United Nations. General Assembly.--Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Women's rights.
• Women human rights workers--Interviews.
• World politics--1945-1989.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2004