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The Evolution of International Human Rights : Visions Seen / Paul Gordon Lauren.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pennsylvania Studies in Human RightsPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: Third EditionDescription: 1 online resource (432 p.) : 16 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812221381
  • 9780812209914
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323
LOC classification:
  • JC571 ǂb L285 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Visions and Visionaries -- Chapter 1. My Brother's and Sister's Keeper -- Chapter 2. To Protect Humanity and Defend Justice -- Chapter 3. Entering the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4. Opportunities and Challenges -- Chapter 5. A "People's War" -- Chapter 6. A "People's Peace" -- Chapter 7. Proclaiming a Vision -- Chapter 8. Transforming Visions into Reality -- Chapter 9. The Continuing Evolution -- Chapter 10. Toward the Future -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: This widely acclaimed and highly regarded book, used extensively by students, scholars, policymakers, and activists, now appears in a new third edition. Focusing on the theme of visions seen by those who dreamed of what might be, Lauren explores the dramatic transformation of a world patterned by centuries of human rights abuses into a global community that now boldly proclaims that the way governments treat their own people is a matter of international concern-and sets the goal of human rights "for all peoples and all nations." He reveals the truly universal nature of this movement, places contemporary events within their broader historical contexts, and explains the relationship between individual cases and larger issues of human rights with insight.This new edition incorporates material from recently declassified documents and the most recent scholarship relating to the creation of the new Human Rights Council and its Universal Periodic Review, the International Criminal Court, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), terrorism and torture, the impact of globalization and modern technology, and activists in NGOs devoted to human rights. It provides perceptive assessments of the process of change, the power of visions and visionaries, politics and political will, and the evolving meanings of sovereignty, security, and human rights themselves.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Visions and Visionaries -- Chapter 1. My Brother's and Sister's Keeper -- Chapter 2. To Protect Humanity and Defend Justice -- Chapter 3. Entering the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4. Opportunities and Challenges -- Chapter 5. A "People's War" -- Chapter 6. A "People's Peace" -- Chapter 7. Proclaiming a Vision -- Chapter 8. Transforming Visions into Reality -- Chapter 9. The Continuing Evolution -- Chapter 10. Toward the Future -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

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This widely acclaimed and highly regarded book, used extensively by students, scholars, policymakers, and activists, now appears in a new third edition. Focusing on the theme of visions seen by those who dreamed of what might be, Lauren explores the dramatic transformation of a world patterned by centuries of human rights abuses into a global community that now boldly proclaims that the way governments treat their own people is a matter of international concern-and sets the goal of human rights "for all peoples and all nations." He reveals the truly universal nature of this movement, places contemporary events within their broader historical contexts, and explains the relationship between individual cases and larger issues of human rights with insight.This new edition incorporates material from recently declassified documents and the most recent scholarship relating to the creation of the new Human Rights Council and its Universal Periodic Review, the International Criminal Court, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), terrorism and torture, the impact of globalization and modern technology, and activists in NGOs devoted to human rights. It provides perceptive assessments of the process of change, the power of visions and visionaries, politics and political will, and the evolving meanings of sovereignty, security, and human rights themselves.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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