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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, got a bit of a ‘makeover’ at the hands of Hansa Jivraj Mehta and the result, though little as compared to the charter, was important enough to ensure equality.

Mrs Mehta, it is said, politely rephrased the sentence, “All men are born free and equal” to “All human beings are born free and equal” when she was appointed by Pandit Nehru to the UN Human Rights Council.

She was born in 1857 to a family of writers and teachers.

Hansa Mehta’s father, Manubhai Mehta was a Professor of Law at Baroda College while her grandfather wrote the first ever novel in Gujarati. She got involved in Mahatma Gandhi’s Non-Cooperation and Swadeshi movements at a very young age and organised protests against shops who sold foreign goods, for which she even got arrested once