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Title

The evolution of international human rights : visions seen / Paul Gordon Lauren.

Author

Lauren, Paul Gordon

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1998.

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Description

xiii, 385 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

Traces the origins of human rights in religious teachings, philosophy and cultural traditions, and the articulation of the principles of human rights in the Charter of the United Nations and later in the Universal Declaration. Includes the text of the Universal Declaration.

Series Statement

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Uniform Title

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Subject

• Human rights
• Human Rights

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• photograph.
• bibliographie.
• photographie.
• bibliografía.
• fotografía.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-366) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 the Twentieth 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.

ISBN

• 0812232747 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0812215214 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98015215^

OCLC

• 39361509
• SCSB-10144588

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Harvard Library