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Advocating dignity : human rights mobilizations in global politics /

In Advocating Dignity, Jean H. Quataert explores the emergence, development, and impact of the human rights revolution following World War II. Intertwining popular local and national mobilizations for rights with ongoing developments of a formal international system of rights monitoring in the Unite...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quataert, Jean H. (Jean Helen), 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009]
Colección:Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The new moral order : between human dignity and territorial sovereignty
  • Raising the bar, 1900-1949
  • An emerging human rights orthodoxy : the first round
  • Cold War politics and human rights publics : the international antiapartheid and Soviet dissident movements, 1952-90
  • Mothers' courage and U.N. monitoring of disappearance, 1973-83
  • The debate continues : critics and new mechanisms
  • The gender factor since the 1970s : universality and the private sphere
  • Citizenship, socioeconomic rights, and the courts in the age of transnational migrations
  • Human rights at a crossroads : wars, crimes, and priorities
  • Ethnic violence, humanitarian intervention, and criminal accountability in the 1990s
  • September 2001 and history
  • Making a difference.