In the wake of World War II's horrors, Roosevelt saw the need to support refugees and affirm the right to education, shelter, and medical care. Roosevelt was there to speak about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document whose drafting she'd overseen at the newly-formed United Nations. The U.N. adopted the document that year on December 10, a date now commemorated as Human Rights Day.

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)