With the blessing of the Roosevelt family, CHR in 2018 established the annual Eleanor Roosevelt Prize for Global Human Rights Advancement to recognize persons and organizations having a positive, enduring, and global impact in advancing the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which Eleanor Roosevelt championed.
“Eleanor Roosevelt is our adopted patron saint at the Center for Human Rights,” said Hon. Bernice B. Donald, then-CHR Chair, at the Prize's inaugural ceremony at historic Roosevelt House in September 2018. “Not just because we love her, or for who she was, and what she meant to the international and national community; but also for what she had to say and how she boldly took a leadership stance on issues that really transformed the world.”
