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Children’s Rights in New York City
Photo courtesy of the United Nations: In 1950, on the second anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, students at the UN International Nursery School in New York viewed a poster of the historic document. November 2019 m …
Eleanor Roosevelt, CCC founder and champion of human rights
Eleanor Roosevelt, one of CCC’s founders, holds the Universal Declaration on Human Rights printed in Spanish. October 11th, 2019 marks the 135th birthday of one of CCC’s founders, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not long after Roosevelt founded CCC, she was appoint …
Five facts you may not know about our founders
CCC is lucky and proud to have a group of smart, pioneering women as its founders and early leaders. The accomplishments of the highest-profile of the bunch, Eleanor Roosevelt, are well-known – she was an iconic international champion of women, childre …