Human Rights at the UN
The Political History of Universal Justice
Indiana University Press
Published on 1. November 2007
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Hardback
456 pages
978-0-253-34935-4 (ISBN)
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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.
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"Expert and rigorous in methodology, engaging in style, pragmatic yet principled and visionary, this indispensable book is accessible to students, activists, scholars, and practitioners. We all need to understand how and why this system came to be the way it is today if we are to re-appropriate its humane vision and re-enact its humanizing power." Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Emory University School of LawMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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978-0-253-34935-4 (9780253349354)
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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