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Hernán Santa Cruz

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 Provided by Wikipedia