Human Rights at the UN : The Political History of Universal Justice.
Title:
Human Rights at the UN : The Political History of Universal Justice.
Author:
Normand, Roger.
ISBN:
9780253000118
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (529 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Series Editors' ForewordLouis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss -- Foreword by Richard A. Falk -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1. Human Rights Foundations in the First Half of theTwentieth Century -- 1 First Expressions of Human Rights Ideas -- 2 The Decline of Human Rights between World Wars -- 3 The Human Rights Crusade in World War II -- 4 Human Rights Politics in the United Nations Charter -- Part 2. Establishing the UN Human Rights Framework -- 5 Laying the Human Rights Foundation -- 6 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- 7 The Human Rights Covenants -- Part 3. The Impact of Civil Society and Decolonization -- 8 The Human Rights of Special Groups -- 9 The Right to Development -- 10 Human Rights after the Cold War -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors -- About the United Nations Intellectual History Project.
Abstract:
Human rights activists Roger Normand and Sarah Zaidi provide a broad political history of the emergence and development of the human rights movement in the 20th century through the crucible of the United Nations, focusing on the hopes and expectations, concrete power struggles, national rivalries, and bureaucratic politics that molded the international system of human rights law. The book emphasizes the period before and after the creation of the UN, when human rights ideas and proposals were shaped and transformed by the hard-edged realities of power politics and bureaucratic imperatives. It also analyzes the expansion of the human rights framework in response to demands for equitable development after decolonization and organized efforts by women, minorities, and other disadvantaged groups to secure international recognition of their rights.
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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