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

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Main Author: Lauren, Paul Gordon
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011], ©2011.
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Subjects:
Human rights.
Physical Description:xii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • My brother's and sister's keeper: visions and the origins of human rights
  • To protect humanity and defend justice: early international efforts
  • Entering the twentieth century: visions, war revolutions, and peacemaking
  • Opportunities and challenges: visions and rights between the wars
  • A "people's war": the crusade of World War II
  • A "people's peace": peace and a charter with human rights
  • Proclaiming a vision: the universal declaration of human rights
  • Transforming vision into reality: the first fifty years of the universal declaration
  • The continuing evolution
  • Toward the future.