Eleanor Roosevelt gets the credit for championing women's rights at the United Nations but two researchers have found that the real heroines responsible for getting women into the U.N. Charter are from Latin America, led by a little-known Brazilian.
Fatima Sator and Elise Luhr Dietrichson, researchers from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, said it's important to set history straight because the U.N. Charter was the first international document to inscribe the equal rights of men and women as part of fundamental human rights.
At a news conference Friday, they . . .
