Hansa Mehta

Hansa Mehta
Born
Hansa Manubhai Mehta

(1897-07-03)3 July 1897
Surat, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died4 April 1995(1995-04-04) (aged 97)
SpouseJivraj Narayan Mehta
Parents
AwardsPadma Bhushan 1959

Hansa Jivraj Mehta (née Manubhai Mehta; 3 July 1897 – 4 April 1995) was an Indian reformist, social activist, educator, independence activist, feminist and writer. She was one of only two women delegates working alongside Eleanor Roosevelt in the UN Human Rights Commission 1946-48 ensuring the wording "all human beings" instead of "all men" in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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