Making a Difference: AJC's Advocacy for Human Rights in the United Nations Charter tells the story of AJC's critical role in ensuring that protecting human rights would be in the United Nations Charter 75 years ago. Authored by Felice Gaer, Director of AJC’s Jacob Blaustein for Human Rights (JBI), the report details the AJC efforts, led by AJC President Judge Joseph Proskauer, and Jacob Blaustein, Chair of AJC’s Executive Committee, to ensure that the preeminent multilateral organization to emerge from the ashes of the Holocaust would have human rights at its core. Their timely and effective advocacy at the 1945 San Francisco Conference played a decisive role in persuading the American delegation to seek key human rights-related amendments to the draft UN Charter. Their achievement made the issue of respect for the human rights of all persons into one of the prominent outcomes not just of the UN founding conference, but of the twentieth century itself.
