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Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux
Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux (26 February 1904 – 25 February 1964) was a French women's and human rights activist. During World War II, she was a member of the French Resistance and orchestrated her husband's release from Buchenwald concentration camp after he was captured by the Gestapo. She was the sole woman in the French delegation to the first General Assembly of the United Nations. Lefaucheux helped found the UN's Commission on the Status of Women and was its chair from 1948 to 1953.
humanity and phrases like “men are brothers.” They received resistance from members of the Commission on Human Rights, but succeeded in introducing new, inclusive language.
History Fifteen original members of CSW.
- Jessie Mary Grey Street, Australia
- Evdokia Uralova, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Way Sung New, People's Republic of China
- Graciela Morales F. de Echeverria, Costa Rica
- Bodil Begtrup, Denmark
- Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux, France
- Sara Basterrechea Ramirez, Guatemala
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