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


Steven L.B. Jensen
Bok Engelsk 2016
Utgitt
New York : Cambridge University Press , 2016
Omfang
XI, 313 s. : ill.
Opplysninger
1. 'Power carries its own conviction': the early rise and fall of human rights, 1945-60; 2. 'The problem of freedom': the United Nations and decolonization, 1960-1; 3. From Jamaica with law: the rekindling of international human rights, 1962-7; 4. The making of a precedent: racial discrimination and international human rights law, 1962-6; 5. 'The hymn of hate': the failed convention on elimination of all forms of religious intolerance, 1962-7; 6. 'So bitter a year for human rights': 1968 and the UN International Year for Human Rights; 7. 'To cope with the flux of the future': human rights and the Helsinki Final Act, 1962-75; 8. The presence of the disappeared, 1968-93; Conclusion.
Emner
United Nations. . Human Rights Committee : n 85236391
Decolonization - History
Human rights - History
FN : (NoOU)UJUR656
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Dewey
ISBN
978-1-107-11216-2

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