Human rights at the UN : the political history of universal justice
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Human rights at the UN : the political history of universal justice
（United Nations intellectual history project）
Indiana University Press, c2008
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-458) and index
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Description
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 moulded 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.
Table of Contents
- IntroductionPart I: Human Rights Foundation in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 1. First Expressions of International Human Rights Ideas
- 2. The Decline of Human Rights between World Wars
- 3. The Human Rights Crusade in the Second World War
- 4. Human Rights Politics in the United Nations CharterPart II: UN Negotiations and the Modern Human Rights Framework 5. Laying the Human Rights Foundation
- 6. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 7. The CovenantsPart III: The Impact of Civil Society and Decolonization 8. The Human Rights of Special Groups
- 9. The Right to Development
- 10. Looking at Human Rights since 1990 and in the Future
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