Steven L. B. Jensen

The Making of International Human Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

The history of human rights is a history of our times. This book offers a remarkable reinterpretation, showing how key Third World states during the 1960s initiated the 'human rights revolution'. They changed international norms and Western politics, challenged the Communist world, and made human rights central to global politics.

Produktdetails

• Human Rights in History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781107531079
• ISBN-10: 1107531071
• Artikelnr.: 47551630

Autorenporträt

Steven L. B. Jensen is a researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. He has previously published on genocide in the twentieth century, HIV/AIDS, global health and development, and 1960s politics. He is the winner of the 2015 Ester Boserup Thesis Prize and the 2015 Rene Cassin Thesis Prize (Special Mention).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
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.