The evolution of international human rights : visions seen /

Main Author: Lauren, Paul Gordon.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1998.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Visions and Visionaries
  • 1. My Brother's and Sister's Keeper: Visions and the Birth of Human Rights
  • 2. To Protect Humanity and Defend Justice: Early International Efforts
  • 3. Entering theTwentieth Century: World Visions, War, and Revolutions
  • 4.Opportunities and Challenges: Visions and Rights Between the Wars
  • 5.A "People's War": The Crusade of World War II
  • 6. A "People's Peace":Peace and a Charter with Human Rights
  • 7. Proclaiming a Vision: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • 8. Transforming Visions into Reality: Fifty Years of the Universal Declaration
  • Conclusion:Visions and the Evolution of International Human Rights
  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.