Hernán Santa Cruz
Hernán Santa Cruz | |
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Hernan Santa Cruz in 1966 | |
| 2nd Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations | |
| In office 1946 – 1953 | |
| President | Gabriel González Videla (1946–1952) Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1953) |
| Preceded by | Gabriel González Videla |
| Succeeded by | Rudecindo Ortega Masson (es) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1906 |
| Died | 1999 (aged 92–93) Santiago, Chile |
| Nationality | Chilean |
| Children | Rodrigo Santa Cruz (son) |
| Occupation | United Nations delegate and administrator, judge, lawyer |
Hernán Santa Cruz (Santiago de Chile, February 8, 1906 – Santiago de Chile, February 10, 1999) was a Chilean lawyer and diplomat, Chile's first delegate to the United Nations and one of the nine original drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
According to the United Nations, in addition to his work on the Declaration, Santa Cruz was "active in the establishment of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean."1
In honor of his work creating ECLAC and his work in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the library in the ECLAC building in Santiago de Chile is named after him.2