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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, c2011.

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Description

xii, 414 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Human rights
• Human rights > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: 1. My Brother's and Sister's Keeper: Visions and the Origins of Human Rights -- Religious Visions -- Philosophical Visions -- Traditional Practices and Ideas of a Very Different Sort -- Visions -- and Reality -- 2. To Protect Humanity and Defend Justice: Early International Efforts -- To Free the Enslaved -- To Assist the Exploited -- To Care for the Wounded -- To Protect the Persecuted -- 3. Entering the Twentieth Century: Visions, War, Revolutions, and Peacemaking -- Modernization, Internationalization, and Visions of Rights -- War, Revolutions, and Rights -- Peacemaking and Human Rights -- The Covenant: Rights Proclaimed and Rights Rejected.
• 4. Opportunities and Challenges: Visions and Rights Between the Wars -- A Flourishing of Visions -- Opportunities for New Departures -- Persistent Problems and Challenges -- The Gathering Storm -- 5. A "People's War": The Crusade of World War II -- War, Genocide, and Self-Reflections -- Crusaders, Visions, and Proposals -- Human Rights Versus National Sovereignty in Postwar Planning -- Opposition from the Great Powers -- 6. A "People's Peace": Peace and a Charter with Human Rights -- Insisting on a Peace with Rights -- Politics and Diplomacy at the San Francisco Conference -- The Charter of the United Nations -- Differing Reactions and Assessments -- 7. Proclaiming a Vision: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- The Revolution Begins -- Challenging Questions of Philosophy -- Difficult Problems of Politics -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• 8. Transforming Visions into Reality: The First Fifty Years of the Universal Declaration -- Extending Rights and Setting Standards -- Protecting Rights Through Implementation -- Promoting Rights -- Expanding Activities and Enhancing Rights -- 9. The Continuing Evolution -- International Law, the Responsibility to Protect, and Challenges to Sovereignty -- Globalization, Development, Terrorism -- and Torture -- New Human Rights Institutions and Organizations -- Technology and Political Will -- 10. Toward the Future -- The Nature and Power of Visions -- People of Vision and Action -- Forces and Events of Consequence -- Process, Politics, and Perspective.

ISBN

• 9780812221381 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0812221389 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010017606

OCLC

609305269

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Harvard Library