René Cassin
René Cassin
The Nobel Peace Prize 1968
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Name: René Cassin
Birth: 5 October 1887, Bayonne, France
Death: 20 February 1976, Paris, France
Residence: France
Role: Acting Mediator in Palestine, 1948, Director, division of Trusteeship, U.N., Professor, Harvard University Cambridge, MA
Portion of Cash: 1/1
Jurist, Judge, Humanitarian, Internationalist. Father of the Declaration of Human Rights.
‘As a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.” – René Cassin
Medal Nobel Cash and Philanthropy
René Cassin used part of his Nobel Prize money to educate students, teachers and people from all over the world regarding human rights in the International Institute of Human Rights which he founded in Strasbourg, France, in 1969.