The making of international human rights : the 1960s, decolonization, and the reconstruction of global values / Steven L.B. Jensen, the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jensen, Steven L. B., 1973- author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Human rights in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--History--20th century.

Human rights.

History.

Decolonization--History--20th century.

Decolonization.

United Nations. Commission on Human Rights.

United Nations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 313 pages.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Negotiating universality: Introduction

"Power carries its own conviction": the early rise and fall of human rights, 1945-1960

"The problem of freedoma': the United Nations and decolonization, 1960-1961

From Jamaica with law: the rekindling of international human rights, 1962-1967

The making of a precedent: racial discrimination and international human rights law, 1962-1966

"The hymn of hate": the failed convention on elimination of all forms of religious intolerance, 1962-1967

"So bitter a year for human rights": 1968 and the UN International Year for Human Rights

"To cope with the flux of the future": human rights and the Helsinki Final Act, 1962-1975

The presence of the disappeared, 1968-1993

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-300) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781316282571

1316282570

Publisher Number:

99966556819

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.