Human Rights at the UN - The Political History of Universal Justice

Informationen zum Autor Roger Normand, Sarah Zaidi Klappentext It 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. Zusammenfassung Provides a 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Series Editors' Foreword by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss Foreword by Richard A. Falk Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Part 1. Human Rights Foundations 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 World War II 4. Human Rights Politics in the United Nations Charter Part 2. UN Negotiations and the Modern Human Rights Framework 5. Laying the Human Rights Foundation 6. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 7. The Covenants Part 3. 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 Notes Index About the Authors About the United Nations Intellectual History Project

Product details

• Authors: Roger Normand, Roger/ Zaidi Normand, Normand Roger, Sarah Zaidi, Zaidi Sarah
• Assisted by: Foreword by Richard a Falk Roger Normand (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.12.2007
• EAN: 9780253219343
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21934-3
• No. of pages: 528
• Series: United Nations Intellectual Hi; United Nations Intellectual History Project Series; United Nations Intellectual Hi
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education