The human rights revolution : an international history /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 353 pages)
Language:English
Series:Reinterpreting history
Reinterpreting history.
Subject:Human rights -- History.
Human rights -- Political aspects -- History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Droits de l'homme.
Histoire.
Génocide.
Crimes de guerre.
Droits de la femme.
Droits fondamentaux.
Human rights.
Human rights -- Political aspects.
Menschenrecht
Menschenrecht.
Entwicklung.
Globalisierung.
Mänskliga rättigheter -- historia.
Mänskliga rättigheter -- politiska aspekter -- historia.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12541159
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Iriye, Akira.
Goedde, Petra, 1964-
Hitchcock, William I.
ISBN:9780199715572
0199715572
9780195333138
0195333136
9780195333145
0195333144
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Between the Second World War and the early 1970s, political leaders, activists, citizens, protestors. and freedom fighters triggered a human rights revolution in world affairs. Stimulated particularly by the horrors of the crimes against humanity in the 1940s, the human rights revolution grew rapidly to subsume claims from minorities, women, the politically oppressed, and marginal communities across the globe. The human rights revolution began with a disarmingly simple idea: that every individual, whatever his or her nationality, political beliefs, or ethnic and religious heritage, possesses an inviolable right to be treated with dignity. From this basic claim grew many more, and ever since, the cascading effect of these initial rights claims has dramatically shaped world history down to our own times. The contributors to this volume look at the wave of human rights legislation emerging out of World War II, including the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the Nuremberg trial, and the Geneva Conventions, and the expansion of human rights activity in the 1970s and beyond, including the anti-torture campaigns of Amnesty International, human rights politics in Indonesia and East Timor, the emergence of a human rights agenda among international scientists, and the global campaign female genital mutilation. The book concludes with a look at the UN Declaration at its 60th anniversary. Bringing together renowned senior scholars with a new generation of international historians, these essays set an ambitious agenda for the history of human rights. -- Publisher description.
Other form:Print version: Human rights revolution. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012 9780195333138