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Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice
Category: Human Security
The authors provide a broad political history of the emergence and development of the human rights movement in the 20th century, focusing on the hopes and expectations, concrete power struggles, national rivalries, and bureaucratic politics that molded the international system of human rights law. The book emphasizes the period before and after the creation of the UN, when human rights ideas and proposals were shaped and transformed by the hard-edged realities of power politics and bureaucratic imperatives. It also analyzes the expansion of the human rights framework in response to demands for equitable development after de-colonization and organized efforts by women, minorities, and other disadvantaged groups to secure international recognition of their rights.
Normand, R. and Zaidi, S., "Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice" (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007)
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