The international human rights movement : a history / Aryeh Neier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neier, Aryeh, 1937- author.

Series:

Human rights and crimes against humanity.

Princeton scholarship online.

Human rights and crimes against humanity

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--History.

Human rights.

Human rights advocacy--History.

Human rights advocacy.

Physical Description:

1 recurso en línea

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.

System Details:

Archivo digital de acceso on line, ePUB/.PDF. Requiere autenticación para su lectura y descarga.

Summary:

During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in struggles against totalitarian regimes and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war against terror and subsequent abuses of government power. This book offers a comprehensive, authoritative account of this global force, from its beginnings in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to its essential place in world affairs today. The book combines analysis with personal experience, and gives an insider's perspective on the movement's goals, the disputes about its mission, its rise to international importance, and the challenges to come. This updated edition includes a new preface by the author.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The Movement

2. Putting Natural Law Principles into Practice

3. What Are Rights?

4. International Human Rights Law

5. International Humanitarian Law

6. Defying Communism

7. Rights on the Other Side of the Cold War Divide

8. Amnesty International

9. Human Rights Watch

10. The Worldwide Movement

11. Accountability

12. Rights after 9/11

13. Going Forward

Notes

Index

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2020.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 17, 2020).

ISBN:

9780691200996

0691200998

OCLC:

1144753536