September 07, 2004

"Mrs. Roosevelt, I’m happy that you’re no longer here"

Is the United States’s love affair with human rights over? In the seventh of openDemocracy's Letters to Americans series, the Iranian lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi writes a heartfelt letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, pioneer of American humanitarianism and commitment to the United Nations.

Ebadi writes: Mrs. Roosevelt, I’m happy that you’re no longer here. Given the great hope you had for a better world, to see the world in the state it finds itself in today would be very painful.

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