Human rights at the UN : the political history of universal justice /

Human rights at the UN : the political history of universal justice / Roger Normand and Sarah Zaidi ; foreword by Richard A. Falk.

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Main Author: Normand, Roger, 1964-
Other Authors: Zaidi, Sarah, Falk, Richard A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008]
Series:United Nations intellectual history project (Series)
Subjects:
United Nations > History.
Human rights > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • PART 1 : HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATIONS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 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
  • PART 2 : ESTABLISHING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK: Laying the human rights foundation
  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • The human rights covenants
  • PART 3 : THE IMPACT OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND DECOLONIZATION: The human rights of special groups
  • The right to development
  • Human rights after the Cold War.

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