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Title

The making of international human rights : the 1960s, decolonization, and the reconstruction of global values / Steven L. B. Jensen, the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

Author

Jensen, Steven L. B., 1973-

Publication

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Description

xi, 313 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "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 1970s - heavily privileging Western agency - Steven L. B. Jensen convincingly argues that it was in the 1960s that universal human rights had their breakthrough. This is a ground-breaking work that places race and religion at the center of these developments and focuses on a core group of states who led the human rights breakthrough, namely Jamaica, Liberia, Ghana, and the Philippines. They transformed the norms upon which the international community today is built. Their efforts in the 1960s post-colonial moment laid the foundation - in profound and surprising ways - for the so-called human rights revolution in the 1970s, when Western activists and states began to embrace human rights"--
• "On 14 June 1993, the Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali delivered the opening address to the World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna. The world had undergone massive political transformations in the preceding four years and the Vienna conference's purpose was to lay new foundations for international human rights protection in the post-Cold War era. Since 1945, the evolution of international human rights had been closely linked to the United Nations. The Cold War and North-South debates had for almost 50 years determined the uneasy existence of human rights at the United Nations"--

Series Statement

Human rights in history

Uniform Title

Human rights in history.

Subject

• United Nations. Commission on Human Rights
• Human rights > History > 20th century
• Decolonization > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-300) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 16-4578

ISBN

• 9781107112162 (hardback)
• 1107112168 (hardback)

LCCN

2015039219

OCLC

933211309

Author

Jensen, Steven L. B., 1973- author.

Title

The making of international human rights : the 1960s, decolonization, and the reconstruction of global values / Steven L. B. Jensen, the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

Publisher

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Human rights in history

Human rights in history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-300) and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 16-4578