John Peters Humphrey
John Peters Humphrey, OC (30 d'abril de 1905- 14 de març de 1995) fou un advocat i jurista canadenc, defensor dels drets humans. És conegut per haver redactat el primer esborrany de la Declaració Universal dels Drets Humans.[1][2]
| Biografia | |
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| Naixement | 30 abril 1905  Nova Brunswick (Canadà) |
| Mort | 14 març 1995 (89 anys) Montreal (Quebec) |
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| Formació | McGill University Faculty of Law (en)  Desautels Faculty of Management Universitat Mount Allison Rothesay Netherwood School (en) |
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| Ocupació | jurista, professor d'universitat, diarista, advocat |
| Ocupador | Organització de les Nacions Unides |
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Publicacions modifica
- Humphrey, John Peters, Human Rights and the United Nations: A Great Adventure (Nova York: Transnational Publishers, 1984) (autobiography)
Referències modifica
- ↑ http://www.humphreyhampton.org/biography.php Arxivat 2011-07-26 a Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Christopher N.J.Roberts. «William H. Fitzpatrick’s Editorials on Human Rights (1949)». Quellen zur Geschichte der Menschenrechte. [Consulta: 4 novembre 2017].
Bibliografia modifica
- On the Edge of Greatness: the Diaries of John Humphrey, First Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights, 4 volumes. Edited by A.J. Hobbins and published as Fontanus Monographs 4, 9, 12 and 13. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press. 1995-2001. ISBN 0-7735-1458-9, ISBN 0-7735-1456-2, ISBN 0-7735-1454-6, ISBN 0-7735-1383-3.
- Hobbins, A.J. and Steward, A. “Humphrey and the quest for compensation: Individual claims against States and the creation of new international law.” Canadian Yearbook of International Law, 2003. XLI (2004). pp. 187–223.
- Hobbins, A.J. “Humphrey and the High Commissioner: the Genesis of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.” Journal of the History of International Law. III (2001), pp. 38–74
- Hobbins, A.J. “Mentor and Protégé: Percy Corbett’s relationship with John Peters Humphrey.” Canadian Yearbook of International Law, 1999. XXXVII (2000), pp. 3–56.
- Hobbins, A.J. "René Cassin and the Daughter of Time: the First Draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights". Fontanus II (1989) pp. 7 26.
- Hobbins, A.J. and Boyer, D. “Seeking Historical Truth: the International Commission of Inquiry into the 1932-33 Famine in Ukraine. Dalhousie Law Journal. XXIV (2001), pp. 139-191
- King, J and Hobbins, A.J.. “Hammarskjöld and Human Rights: the Deflation of the UN Human Rights Programme, 1953-1961.” Journal of the History of International Law. V (2003), pp. 337–386.