Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Visions and Visionaries -- 1. My Brother's and Sister's Keeper: Visions and the Origins of Human Rights -- Religious Visions -- Philosophical Visions -- Traditional Practices and Ideas of a Very Different Sort -- Visions-and Reality -- 2. To Protect Humanity and Defend Justice: Early International Efforts -- To Free the Enslaved -- To Assist the Exploited -- To Care for the Wounded -- To Protect the Persecuted -- 3. Entering the Twentieth Century: Visions, War, Revolutions, and Peacemaking -- Modernization, Internationalization, and Visions of Rights -- War, Revolutions, and Rights -- Peacemaking and Human Rights -- The Covenant: Rights Proclaimed and Rights Rejected -- 4. Opportunities and Challenges: Visions and Rights Between the Wars -- A Flourishing of Visions -- Opportunities for New Departures -- Persistent Problems and Challenges -- The Gathering Storm -- 5. A "People's War": The Crusade of World War II -- War, Genocide, and Self- Reflections -- Crusaders, Visions, and Proposals -- Human Rights Versus National Sovereignty in Postwar Planning -- Opposition from the Great Powers -- 6. A "People's Peace": Peace and a Charter with Human Rights -- Insisting on a Peace with Rights -- Politics and Diplomacy at the San Francisco Conference -- The Charter of the United Nations -- Differing Reactions and Assessments -- 7. Proclaiming a Vision: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- The Revolution Begins -- Challenging Questions of Philosophy -- Difficult Problems of Politics -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- 8. Transforming Visions into Reality: The First Fifty Years of the Universal Declaration -- Extending Rights and Setting Standards -- Protecting Rights Through Implementation -- Promoting Rights -- Expanding Activities and Enhancing Rights.

9. The Continuing Evolution -- International Law, the Responsibility to Protect, and Challenges to Sovereignty -- Globalization, Development, Terrorism- and Torture -- New Human Rights Institutions and Organizations -- Technology and Political Will -- 10. Toward the Future -- The Nature and Power of Visions -- People of Vision and Action -- Forces and Events of Consequence -- Process, Politics, and Perspective -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- About the Author.