The making of international human rights : the 1960s, decolonization, and the reconstruction of global values /

"This book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the Global South was for their breakthrough. In stark contrast to other contemporary human rights historians who have focused almost exclusively on the 1940s and the 1...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jensen, Steven L. B., 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Colección:Human rights in history.
Temas:
United Nations. > Commission on Human Rights.
United Nations. > Commission on Human Rights
Conference on Disarmament
1900-1999
Human rights > History > 20th century.
Decolonization > History > 20th century.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Décolonisation > Histoire > 20e siècle.
LAW > International.
Decolonization
Human rights
Menschenrecht
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Negotiating universality: Introduction
  • "Power carries its own conviction": the early rise and fall of human rights, 1945-1960
  • "The problem of freedoma': the United Nations and decolonization, 1960-1961
  • From Jamaica with law: the rekindling of international human rights, 1962-1967
  • The making of a precedent: racial discrimination and international human rights law, 1962-1966
  • "The hymn of hate": the failed convention on elimination of all forms of religious intolerance, 1962-1967
  • "So bitter a year for human rights": 1968 and the UN International Year for Human Rights
  • "To cope with the flux of the future": human rights and the Helsinki Final Act, 1962-1975
  • The presence of the disappeared, 1968-1993
  • Conclusion.

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