Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: The Declaration at Fifty -- Chapter 1: The Drafting Process Explained -- 1.1 The United Nations Charter and the Declaration -- 1.2 The Seven Drafting Stages -- 1.3 Original Intentions and the Cold War -- 1.4 The Eight Abstentions -- 1.5 Authors, Title, and Addressees -- Chapter 2: World War II as Catalyst -- 2.1 Personal Security and the Camps -- 2.2 Nazification and Legal Human Rights -- 2.3 The Problem with the Nuremberg Trials -- 2.4 Democracy, Free Speech, and Hate Speech -- 2.5 Special International Human Rights and the Role of the United Nations -- 2.6 Social, Economic, and Cultural Examples -- Chapter 3: Colonies, Minorities, and Women's Rights -- 3.1 The Communist Push for Nondiscrimination -- 3.2 The Problem of the Colonies -- 3.3 Race, Color, National Origin, and Language -- 3.4 Political Opinion, Property, and Birth -- 3.5 The Women's Lobby and Women's Rights -- Chapter 4: Privacy and Different Kinds of Property -- 4.1 The Latin American Connection -- 4.2 Inviolability and Privacy Rights -- 4.3 Should Personal Property Be Singled Out? -- 4.4 "Alone as Well as in Association with Others" -- 4.5 A Minimum Within a Larger Framework -- Chapter 5: The Socialist Shape of Work-Related Rights -- 5.1 Freedom and the Right to Work -- 5.2 The Right to Protection Against Unemployment -- 5.3 The Campaign for Trade Union Rights -- 5.4 Union Shops, Strikes, and Levels of Implementation -- 5.5 Conditions: "Human Labour Is Not a Merchandise" -- Chapter 6: Social Security, Education, and Culture -- 6.1 Food, Clothing, Housing, and Medical Care -- 6.2 Troubles with the Phrase "Social Security" -- 6.3 The Rights to Full Development, Education, and Culture -- 6.4 The Distinction Between "Old" and "New" Human Rights -- 6.5 The Organic Unity of the Document -- Chapter 7: Duties and Communities.

7.1 The Duties and Communities of Article 29 -- 7.2 Protecting the Family, Motherhood, and Childhood -- 7.3 The Rights of Religious and Educational Communities -- 7.4 The Omission of a Special Minority Rights Article -- Chapter 8: Article 1, the Preamble, and the Enlightenment -- 8.1 A Bargain About God and Nature -- 8.2 "Inherent," "Inalienable," and "Born" -- 8.3 Reason and "the Conscience of Mankind" -- 8.4 The Rights to Petition and Rebellion -- 8.5 Human Rights as Means and Ends -- 8.6 The Declaration and Human Rights Education -- Appendix: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a Guide to Discussions of Specific Topics and Articles -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.