Decolonization and the evolution of international human rights /
This book challenges traditional accounts of the Third World's contribution to international human rights. It demonstrates that diplomats from Third World countries helped both to radicalize the UN human rights agenda in the heyday of decolonization and to undermine that agenda by advancing cul...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2010.
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Colección: | Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This book challenges traditional accounts of the Third World's contribution to international human rights. It demonstrates that diplomats from Third World countries helped both to radicalize the UN human rights agenda in the heyday of decolonization and to undermine that agenda by advancing cultural relativism as an excuse for abuses in the 1970s. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (234 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780812205329 0812205324 1283896427 9781283896429 |