Bodil Begtrup

Bodil Gertrud Begtrup (12 November 1903 - 12 December 1987) was a Danish women's rights activist and diplomat.

In 1929, she became a member of the board of Kvinderådet, in 1931, she was elected vice-president, and in the period 1946-49 she was president. In 1939 she became Denmark's first female film censor. After the war she became a member of the Danish delegation to the UN General Assembly. In 1946 she became chairman of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Begtrup was vice chairman of the committee that negotiated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. She was appointed Envoy to Iceland in 1949, and became Denmark's first female ambassador, when in 1955 she was appointed ambassador to Iceland.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "Bodil Begtrup and the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights". Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  2. ↑ http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/32/
  3. ↑ Erik Beukel; Frede P. Jensen; Jens Elo Rytter (2010). Phasing Out the Colonial Status of Greenland, 1945-54: A Historical Study. Museum Tusculanum Press. pp. 448–. ISBN 978-87-635-2587-9.

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