Santa Cruz, Hernán

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Santa Cruz, Hernán
Other forms of name
Santa Cruz Barceló, Hernán, 1906-
Date of birth
1906-02-08
Date of death
1999-02-10
Field of activity
Law
Political science
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 36655373
Wikidata: Q17633672
Library of congress: n 85073998
OCoLC: oca01364921
Sources of Information
  • Who's who in the United Nations, 1951(Santa Cruz, Hernan; b. 1906, Santiago, Chile; licensed in law and political science; permanant representative to the United Nations from 1947)
  • His Cooperar o perecer, c1984- :v. 1 t.p. (Hernán Santa Cruz)
  • LC data base, 7-2-85(hdg.: Santa Cruz, Hernán)
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Wikipedia description:

Hernán Santa Cruz (Santiago de Chile, February 8, 1906 – Santiago de Chile, February 10, 1999) was a Chilean lawyer and diplomat, Chile's first delegate to the United Nations and one of the nine original drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. According to the United Nations, in addition to his work on the Declaration, Santa Cruz was "active in the establishment of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean."1 In honor of his work creating ECLAC and his work in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the library in the ECLAC building in Santiago de Chile is named after him.2

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