Isabel Sánchez de Urdaneta

Isabel Sánchez de Urdaneta was a Venezuelan stateswoman and feminist in the mid-twentieth century.

She was a teacher and founder of kindergartens in Venezuela before she and her husband moved to Washington, D.C., where he took up a diplomatic position.

[1] She served as a delegate to the San Francisco Conference when the UN Charter was drafted in 1945.

[2] She was the 1946 Venezuelan delegate to the Inter-American Commission of Women[3] as well as the 1947 delegate to the Primer Congreso Interamericano de Mujeres (First Inter-American Congress of Women)[4] and delegate to the UN Commission on the Status of Women during the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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