Negotiating human rights : in defence of dissidents during the Soviet era : a memoir / Christina Isajiw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Isajiw, Christina, 1945- author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Isajiw, Christina, 1945-.

Isajiw, Christina.

World Congress of Free Ukrainians. Human Rights Commission--Presidents--Biography.

World Congress of Free Ukrainians.

Women human rights workers--Ukraine--Biography.

Women human rights workers.

Women human rights workers--Soviet Union--Biography.

Human rights advocacy--Ukraine--History--20th century.

Human rights advocacy.

Human rights advocacy--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

Human rights--Ukraine--History--20th century.

Human rights.

Human rights--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

Dissenters--Ukraine--History--20th century.

Dissenters.

Dissenters--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

Civil rights--Ukraine--History--20th century.

Civil rights.

Civil rights--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1953-1985.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 407 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Other Title:

Negotiating Human Rights

Place of Publication:

Edmonton ; Toronto : Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2014.

Summary:

Christina Isajiw's book Negotiating Human Rights: In Defence of Dissidents during the Soviet Era. A Memoir chronicles the activities of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians (WCFU) during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly this NGO's defense of Ukrainian dissidents and human rights activists within the context of the so-called Helsinki Process that followed the signing of the Helsinki Accords in 1975. The author recounts the courage and dedication of human rights activists in the former USSR and the efforts on the part of their supporters in the West to lobby Western governments to pressure the political establishments of the USSR and other Eastern bloc countries to implement the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Final Act. In describing the many international conferences and intergovernmental negotiations that provided the framework for these activities, the author provides insight into the evolution of the Helsinki Process and the development of Western commitment to human rights, all of which contributed to the revolutionary changes in Eastern Europe of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The book includes a CD with relevant documentation.

Contents:

International Women's Year, Mexico

Lobby, habitat and Pierre Elliot Trudeau

World Council of Churches, Amnesty International and Madrid

A standing committee on human rights, Budapest CSCE

Human rights, Ottawa, Nairobi and a publication on the Ukrainian Catholic Church

Vienna Review Meeting

November 4, 1986 to January 19, 1989

and Canadian commitment to human rights

Venice : in the spirit of Helsinki and Paris : the human dimension

New milestones

In the new Europe

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Publisher Number:

heb40288 hdl