United Nations Involvement
Norma Boyd was named as a United Nations observer in 1949. She took part in several committees, such as the Advisory Committee to the American Delegate to the Inter-American Council of Women, the Pan-American Liaison Committee, and the East-West Association.
In 1949 Boyd traveled to South America as an observer at the Inter-American Commission of Women in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the conference, she was a delegate representing the United Nation's Non-Government Organizations, the International House Association, the People's Mandate Committee, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. While in Brazil, Boyd also founded a chapter of International House.
As an observer, Boyd was interested in children's rights and supported Principle 10 of the Declaration of Human Rights. To help educate her students, one year Boyd financed twenty-five of them for a trip to the United Nations' General Assembly in New York City.
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