What was the position of René Cassin after Jul 1965?
René Cassin René Samuel Cassin ( 5 October 1887 – 20 February 1976 ) was a French jurist known for co-authoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize . Cassin was born in Bayonne . He served as a soldier in World War I . On June 24 , 1940 , Cassin heeded General Charles de Gaulles radio appeal and joined him in London , using his legal expertise to help the Free French . Between 1944 and 1959 was a member of the Council of State . Seconded to the UN Commission on Human Rights after the war , he was a major contributor to the 1946 Universal Declaration of Human Rights . For this work he would receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 . That same year , he was awarded one of the UN General Assemblys Human Rights Prizes . Personal life . Cassin was born in Bayonne 5 October 1887 , to a Sephardi Jewish family . He grew up in Nice , where he attended the , and graduated with a bachelors degree at 17 . He matriculated at the University of Aix , studying political economics , constitutional history , and Roman law , and awarded distinctions in law , and a university degree with distinction , and a first prize in the competitive examinations in the faculty of law . In 1914 in Paris , he was awarded his doctorate in juridical science , economics , and politics . Cassin died in Paris in 1976 and was initially interred at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris . In 1987 , his remains were exhumed and enshrined in the crypt of the Pantheon in Paris . Career . Early career . Cassin served in World War I in 1916 at the Battle of the Meuse . In one operation he led to attack enemy positions , he was gravely injured in the arm , side , and stomach by machine gun fire . A medic saved his life , but he only received surgical treatment ten days later at Antibes . He was awarded the Croix de Guerre for his actions , but was too gravely injured to return to active duty , and was mustered out as a war invalid . He formed the Union Fédérale , a leftist , pacifist organisation for veterans . Cassin also headed many Non-Governmental Organisations ( NGO ) , founding the French Federation of Disabled War Veterans in 1918 and until 1940 serving as its president and then honorary president . As French delegate to the League of Nations from 1924 to 1938 , Cassin pressed for progress on disarmament and in developing institutions to aid the resolution of international conflicts . Second World War . Refusing the ceasefire , René Cassin embarked on a British ship , the Ettrick , in Saint-Jean-de-Luz on June 24 , 1940 and joined General Charles de Gaulle in London to help him continue the war against Germany . He was , therefore , one of the first to join him . De Gaulle needed legal help to draft the statutes of Free France , so his arrival in London was very welcome . René Cassin did not speak English but already knew leading academics and political figures , like Foreign Minister Anthony Eden . In April 1941 , Cassin made a radio broadcast from London , addressing himself especially to French Jews from a secular viewpoint and reminding them of the full and equal protection France had always offered Jews since the Revolution . Je exhorted them to pay back that debt in part by joining the forces of Free France . In May , the Vichy Regime stripped Cassin of his French citizenship , and in 1942 he was sentenced him to death in absentia . Post-war . Following World War Two , Cassin was assigned to the United Nations , helping to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . Working from a list of rights elaborated by Canadian scholar and professor of law John Humphrey , Cassin produced a revised draft and expanded the text . He served on the UNs Human Rights Commission and the Hague Court of Arbitration . He was also a member ( 1959–1965 ) and president ( 1965–1968 ) of the European Court of Human Rights . Today the court building is on the Allée René Cassin in Strasbourg . In 1945 , Charles de Gaulle suggested Cassin , having done so much for the French people , also do something to help the Jewish people . Cassin became the president of the French-Jewish Alliance Israelite Universelle ( AIU ) which had previously been primarily dedicated to educating Sephardi Jews living under the rule of the Ottoman Empire according to a French modernist curriculum . As president of the AIU , Cassin worked with the American Jewish Committee and the Anglo-Jewish Association , to found the Consultative Council of Jewish Organisations , a network dedicated to building support for Cassins platform of human rights from a Jewish perspective while the UN human rights system was in its early stages of development . In 1947 , René Cassin created the French Institute of Administrative Sciences ( IFSA ) which was recognized of public utility . He was the first president of this association which organized many conferences that helped to develop the French doctrine in administrative law . On 10 November 1950 , he was photographed at a U.N . radio alongside Karim Azkoul , Georges Day and Herald C.L . Roy , participating in a roundtable discussion for the use of French-speaking countries . This is perhaps all the more interesting because Azkoul and Cassin differed so strongly in their perspectives concerning the politics of Zionism . Legacy . In 2001 , CCJO René Cassin was founded in Cassins to promote Universal Human Rights from a Jewish perspective . The René Cassin medal is awarded by the CCJO to those who have made an outstanding global contribution to human rights . As the head of the Alliance Israélite in France , he pursued civil rights for the Jews and was an active Zionist . A high school in Jerusalem is named after him . In 2003 , the Basque Government created the René Cassin Award , with the goal of publicly acknowledging and rewarding individuals or collectives that , through their personal or professional path , showed a strong commitment to the promotion , defence and divulgation of Human Rights . The award is given on December 10 , International Human Rights Day .