Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights

Informationen zum Autor Roland Burke Klappentext 72040250 Zusammenfassung This book challenges traditional accounts of the Third World's contribution to international human rights. It demonstrates that diplomats from Third World countries helped both to radicalize the UN human rights agenda in the heyday of decolonization and to undermine that agenda by advancing cultural relativism as an excuse for abuses in the 1970s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Politics of Decolonization and the Evolution of the International Human Rights Project 1. Human Rights and the Birth of the Third World: The Bandung Conference 2. "Transforming the End into the Means": The Third World and the Right to Self-Determination 3. Putting the Stamps Back On: Apartheid, Anticolonialism, and the Accidental Birth of a Universal Right to Petition 4. "It Is Very Fitting": Celebrating Freedom in the Shah's Iran, the First World Conference on Human Rights,Tehran 1968 5. "According to Their Own Norms of Civilization": The Rise of Cultural Relativism and the Decline of Human Rights Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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• Authors: Roland Burke, Burke Roland
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.02.2013
• EAN: 9780812222586
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2258-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education