Human rights at the UN : the political history of universal justice / Roger Normand and Sarah Zaidi ; foreword by Richard A. Falk.
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. The hopes and expectations, concrete power struggles, national rivalries, and bureaucra...
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©2008.
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Table of Contents:
- First expressions of human rights ideas
- The decline of human rights between World Wars
- The human rights crusade in World War II
- Human rights politics in the United Nations charter
- Laying the human rights foundation
- The universal declaration of human rights
- The human rights covenants
- The human rights of special groups
- The right to development
- Human rights after the Cold War.