Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice (United Nations Intellectual History Project) - Hardcover

Normand, Roger; Zaidi, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253349354 ISBN 13: 9780253349354

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0253349354
• ISBN 13: 9780253349354
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 486
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