Malik represented Lebanon at the San Francisco conference at which the United Nations was founded . He served as a rapporteur for the Commission on Human Rights in 1947 and 1948 , when he became President of the Economic and Social Council . The same year , he helped to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with Chair and President of the Human Rights Commission , U.S. Delegate to the U.N. General Assembly , Eleanor Roosevelt . He succeeded Mrs. Roosevelt as the Human Rights Commission 's Chair . He remained as ambassador to the US and UN until 1955 . He was an outspoken participant in debates in the United Nations General Assembly and often criticized the Soviet Union . After a three-year absence , he returned in 1958 to preside over the thirteenth session of the United Nations General Assembly
San Francisco conference
United Nations Conference on International Organization
Charles Malik