
Advocating Dignity : Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics.
Title:
Advocating Dignity : Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics.
Author:
Quataert, Jean H.
ISBN:
9780812206128
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (372 pages)
Series:
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: The New Moral Order: Between Human Dignity and Territorial Sovereignty -- 1. Raising the Bar, 1900-1949 -- Part I. An Emerging Human Rights Orthodoxy: The First Round -- 2. Cold War Politics and Human Rights Publics: The International Antiapartheid and Soviet Dissident Movements, 1952-90 -- 3. Mothers' Courage and U.N. Monitoring of Disappearance, 1973-83 -- Part II. The Debate Continues: Critics and New Mechanisms -- 4. The Gender Factor since the 1970s: Universality and the Private Sphere -- 5. Citizenship, Socioeconomic Rights, and the Courts in the Age of Transnational Migrations -- Part III. Human Rights at a Crossroads: Wars, Crimes, and Priorities -- 6. Ethnic Violence, Humanitarian Intervention, and Criminal Accountability in the 1990s -- 7. September 2001 and History -- Conclusion: Making a Difference -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
Advocating Dignity is a detailed historical account of the emergence, development, and impact of the global human rights revolution. Drawing on graphic case studies from various global settings, it narrates the hopes and bitter struggles that have altered the course of international and domestic relations since 1945.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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