Human rights at the UN : the political history of universal justice / Roger Normand and Sarah Zaidi ; foreword by Richard A. Falk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Normand, Roger, 1964-

Contributor:

Zaidi, Sarah.

Series:

United Nations intellectual history project (Series)

United Nations intellectual history project

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--History--20th century.

Human rights.

United Nations--History.

United Nations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (529 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. The hopes and expectations, concrete power struggles, national rivalries, and bureaucratic politics that molded the international system of human rights are all points of focus in the book.

Contents:

First expressions of human rights ideas

The decline of human rights between World Wars

The human rights crusade in World War II

Human rights politics in the United Nations charter

Laying the human rights foundation

The universal declaration of human rights

The human rights covenants

The human rights of special groups

The right to development

Human rights after the Cold War.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-458) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-06582-3

9786612065828

0-253-00011-4

OCLC:

476163675