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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burke, Roland (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Colección:Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Human rights and the birth of the third world : the Bandung Conference
  • "Transforming the end into the means" : the third world and the right to self-determination
  • Putting the stamps back on : apartheid, anticolonialism, and the accidental birth of a universal right to petition
  • "It is very fitting" : celebrating freedom in the Shah's Iran, the first world conference on human rights, Tehran 1968
  • "According to their own norms of civilization" : the rise of cultural relativism and the decline of human rights.