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René Cassin

René Cassin
French jurist René Cassin won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. He was the principal author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, and served as president of the UN Human Rights Commission from 1954 to 1956.
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